Description of problem: devlabel is more or less unusable with (IDE) CD-ROM units. It either works or fails with different error messages. My system : hde : Teac CD-532E-B , 32x CD-ROM hdg : Teac CD-W540E , 40x12x48x CD-MRW devlabel results : (hdg has a CD inserted,but not mounted, hde is empty) : [root@slave6 label]# devlabel add -d /dev/hdg -s $PWD/cdx Created symlink /dev/label/cdx -> /dev/hdg [root@slave6 label]# devlabel add -d /dev/hde -s $PWD/cdy /dev/hde does not exist. Failure. Since this device does not exist, it did not return an identifier. ( no CD inserted in either drive ) : [root@slave6 ide]# devlabel add -d /dev/hde -s $PWD/cde Failure. The device you are trying to add to devlabel does not show up in /proc/partitions. [root@slave6 ide]# devlabel add -d /dev/hdg -s $PWD/cdg /dev/hdg does not exist. Failure. Since this device does not exist, it did not return an identifier. And ( CD in both drives , both mounted ) : [root@slave6 mnt]# devlabel add -d /dev/hde -s $PWD/cde Failure. The device you are trying to add to devlabel does not show up in /proc/partitions. [root@slave6 mnt]# devlabel add -d /dev/hdg -s $PWD/cdg Failure. The device you are trying to add to devlabel does not show up in /proc/partitions. And finally, CD in both, none mounted : [root@slave6 mnt]# devlabel add -d /dev/hde -s $PWD/cde Failure. The device you are trying to add to devlabel does not show up in /proc/partitions. [root@slave6 mnt]# devlabel add -d /dev/hdg -s $PWD/cdg Failure. The device you are trying to add to devlabel does not show up in Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): devlabel-0.26.08-3 kernel-2.4.20-8.athlon.rpm
Please try to reproduce on a current release (FC1/FC2).