Hallo, heavytull,

Du meintest am 10.02.08:

> on my slack12.0 box all links that node to the CD/DVD drive are
> ending with "1".

> $ls /dev/cd*
> /dev/cdr1 /dev/cdrom1 /dev/cdrw1 /dev/cdwriter1

> i don't want to add a script to symlink at boot.
> i want to know why things have gone this way.

If you use "udev" then define these devices in "/lib/udev/devices". When
"udev" starts working it first copies these entries to "/dev".

Viele Gruesse
Helmut

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