How to disable the scsi cdrom driver/bus permanently?

[David Taveras]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:58 AM, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:

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> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd-rules
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> and more importantly, /etc/udev/rules.d/README
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> you could also try... heh... rm -f /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrw /dev/dvd /dev/dvdrw
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I read that but it isnt clear on how to disable it.. i tried assigning
it different numbers to the file and commenting them, even changing
the scsi numbers.. no luck.

> of course, that guarantees that NO ONE will ever be able to use the
> CD/DVD drive again (unless/until they rebuild the device files)...  of
> course, the system may create them again at startup, so YMMV...
>
yeah i tried that.. they just get recreated.