[PLUG] Reconfiguring for change of hardware

Richard C. Steffens rsteff at comcast.net
Sat Mar 4 21:40:48 UTC 2006


I recently had to replace the power supply on this machine. The new one 
has fewer "regular" connectors, the ones used for hard drives and CD 
drives, than the old one. With the old one I had a CD-ROM drive and a 
CD-RW drive. It is very rare that I need to read a CD on this machine, 
so I just left it disconnected when I put in the new ps.

The OS installation is SuSE 9.1.

I'm having two problems. One may have always been there. I am unable to 
open the CD-RW drawer unless the K3B program is running.

The second is that I am unable to point various CD tools at the 
recorder; they all want to look at the no-longer-connected CD-ROM drive.

In /dev I have:

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 2004-10-06 11:16 cdrecorder -> hdd
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 2004-09-27 17:24 cdrom -> hdc

Would the simplest thing be to replace cdrom with a new link also 
pointing to hdd, or is there something more fundamental that I'm missing?

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens



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