Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 86216
kudzu should make /dev/cdrom entries in same order as /dev/scd entries
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:35:08 EDT
Description of problem: I have two ATAPI CD drives in my system, one as secondary master (hdc) and one as secondary slave (hdd). hdc is a DVD/CD-ROM drive, hdd is a CD-RW drive. On a clean install of Red Hat Linux 8.0.94, the CD-RW drive is automatically configured as an IDE-SCSI drive by appending "hdd=ide-scsi" to the kernel parameters at boot time, while the DVD drive is left as a standard EIDE CD drive. /dev/cdrom = /dev/hdc = hdc /dev/cdrom1 = /dev/scd0 = hdd /dev/cdwriter = /dev/sg0 = hdd I decided I would like both ATAPI CD drives to use the IDE-SCSI layer to keep things consistent, so I added "hdc=ide-scsi" to the kernel parameters. Afterward, I am left with: /dev/cdrom = /dev/scd1 = hdd /dev/cdrom1 = /dev/scd0 = hdc /dev/cdwriter = /dev/sg1 = hdd I would hope that I would instead have: /dev/cdrom = /dev/scd0 = hdc /dev/cdrom1 = /dev/scd1 = hdd /dev/cdwriter = /dev/sg1 = hdd I would expect this because it would: - have the /dev/cdrom symbolic links in the same order as the IDE-SCSI devices (the first /dev/cdrom entry points to the first /dev/scd? entry, and so on) - leave the /dev/cdrom symbolic links pointing to the same physical drive as they did before the DVD drive (hdc) was also made an IDE-SCSI device I am filing this bug under kudzu, as I believe it is responsible for hardware detection and modification of the /dev/cdrom symlinks. This bug is probably unimportant, and you may decide to class it as an enhancement rather than a defect. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kudzu-0.99.96-1
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of response. In current trees this functionality is handled by HAL, fstab-sync, and the udev configuration; the old code in kudzu is unlikely to change.