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[Rodney Wishart <rwishhart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have two sata CDRW/DVDRW drives connected to my box, both of which
work fine.  I have a problem with the OS (SuSE 11.1) automatically
changing links cdrom. cdrw, dvdrom, dvdrw  in /dev.

When I first boot up the above links are linked to /dev/sr1. If I place
a cd or dvd in the "sr1 drive all works as it should.  cds and dvds play
burn etc.  If I insert a cd or dvd in sr0, the OS changes the links to
point to /dev/sr0 not /dev/sr1.  If I remove the cd/dvd from the sr0
drive and place it in the sr1 drive the OS does not redo/change back the
cdrom dvdrom etc. links to sr1.  This creates problems with some of the
SuSE apps such as the KDE Kioslave-audiocd and Audex to name a few. 
These apps will then work with the sr0 drive not the sr1 drive. Other
apps seem to work just fine even though the OS has changed the links.

My question is: Is there a way to stop the OS from changing the links? 
If I can get the OS to set the cdrom/dvdrom links to /dev/sr0 can I
create my own links cdrom1/dvdrom1 to /dev/sr1 without the OS
overwriting them?

Thanks,
Rodney
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