On Tuesday 07 March 2006 03:09, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 07/03/06 00:39, Bob S wrote:
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Here are some odd things that I have found: In Yast> Hardware> CD Roms, Yast posts two each of the devices. The NEC dvd device and the LiteOn cd device. They all show as non-configured. I edit them to show the mount point etc. and click "finish" Yast says OK. Reopen the dialogue and they are not configured. The settings do not stick.
Now, when I look at /dev it shows 3 devices for each unit. For the cdrecorder it shows cdrom which is linked to /dev/hdc (incorrect - should be /dev/hdd) then cdrecorder, which is correctly linked to hdd, and cdrecorder2 which is linked to /dev/fd0 (really wrong)
Same thing happened here; the following isn't necessarily the only way to do it, but it worked for me.
Delete all the CD devices in Yast/Hardware, and save; then delete all the soft links in /dev, eg /dev/cdrecorder --> /dev/hdc. It may be a good idea at this point to reboot. I think you can also safely delete (or comment out) the /etc/fstab entries prior to rebooting.
On reboot, the devices should be autodetected for you to configure. If not, start Yast and configure them. Verify the links in /dev have been restored as they should be, and make any corrections necessary. When I carried out this procedure, I actually had to recreate all the links. You should also verify the fstab entries. I don't recall if I deleted those.
Big PITA, really. A couple of times after a system crash, I had a similar spurious NIC show up -- had to delete the lot of them, reboot, and reconfigure. Fortunately, the rest of the system was left intact, so I was able simply to restart the network, and everything was properly restored. More big PITA.
Thanks for replying Darryl, much appreciated. I have heard what you said. Maybe that is what I need to do. Tried several ways to delete the duplicate Nec dvdrecorder and the Lite-On cdrecorder but couldn't figure out how to do it. Question: You deleted /dev/cdrecorder. OK not a big deal, just a symlink. But you also deleted /dev/hdc ? That is a block device. Didn't you have to rebuild that? I've been trying to follow Carlos' advice. See my reply to him. Bob S.