edgy->feisty cdrom mountpoint

Ben Collins ben.collins at ubuntu.com
Tue Mar 27 18:12:42 BST 2007


On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 17:51 +0200, Michael Vogt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noitced that the mount point for the cdrom on a edgy system is
> usually something like:
> 
> """
> /dev/hda        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
> """
> 
> In feisty the cdrom device is /dev/scd0 so mounting does no longer
> work for tools that try to mount via the mount-point (apt-cdrom is one
> example). 
> 
> I would like to start a discussion what we can do to fix this
> issue. The release upgrader could try rewrite it to /dev/scd0 for
> example.

I was under the impression that default installs used /dev/cdrom,
not /dev/{hdX,scd0} for this. Are you sure you didn't manually set this
entry?

Note, this affects users whos IDE controller has switched to being
driven by a libata-pata driver rather than an IDE driver.

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