On Saturday 04 May 2002 07:55, Shawn Tanner wrote:
My sym links point to /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1. Is it better to have them point to /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1? What is the difference between /dev/sr0 and /dev/scd0?
Nothing. If you look at them with ls -l you'll see brw-r----- 1 root disk 11, 0 Mar 23 20:47 /dev/sr0 brw-r----- 1 root disk 11, 0 Mar 23 20:47 /dev/scd0 Note the "b" at the beginning. This means "block special file". With these files, the numbers before the date aren't size, as for a regular file, they are "major" and "minor" numbers and they decide how the kernel interprets them. As you can see they are both major 11, minor 0, so they are identical. Of course, they can have different permission settings, so if one works and the other doesn't, this would be the most likely culprit. regards Anders