Why is there a cd entry in the fstab?

[Neil]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
> <short background - oversimplified>
> I took a working Hardy box with a CDROM, duplicated the hard drive and
> stuck it in a different box with a DVDROM/CDRW.
> </background>
>
> The DVD didn't work at all.  Didn't even seem to spin up.  Figuring
> bad hardware (first time using that drive) I replaced it with a plain
> CDROM.  Still didn't work right, but it would spin up.  You couldn't
> eject the tray.  Oddly, if you inserted a cd and went to Computer the
> name of the CD would appear on the CD Rom icon, but clicking the icon
> would give you an error saying there likely was no media.
>
> While goofing around trying to figure things out I commented out the
> entry in the fstab
>  dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0      udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
>
> and it works...
>
> So why is there an entry in the fstab at all?  Is is there just for cd burning?
>
> As of right now, /dev/cdrom1 and /dev/sr0 are linked to /dev/scd0.   I
> don't think that's the way it was earlier.
>
> Note it's cdrom0 in the fstab.
>
> Are the cdrom entries generated by udev like the ethernet entries, and
> if I swap one they 'autoincrement'   But if that's the case why didn't
> the cdrom1 entry get made the first time?
>
> I guess I'm looking for insight into how the whole thing is supposed
> to work so I can figure out what happened here.
>
> Brian
>
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Hi

Apart from the CDROM, is the hardware the same? Same motherboard brand
and model?

Neil


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