Very Computer

I think the right thing to do is to put the commands you want to run
in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.  That file is a script that is executed on
bootup.

It also seems to me that those commands should be permanent, so that
is puzzleing.  Does it always reboot into the broken state ?  It would
seem very strange that it should sometimes boot into the broken state
and sometimes into the working state.

But that is the way it happens, you can write a script to check the
workingness by calling cdrecord -scanbus and only redo the /dev
linking if needed.

--Rob

Charles>
Charles> I hate to ask the often answered, but I have a TDK VeloCD
Charles> CD-RW in my PII 233 machine installed as a master on the
Charles> secondary IDE. I'm running Mandrake-linux 7.0, and of course
Charles> I get the bad link problem. I have run the fix suggested on
Charles> Mandrake's Web-page, but I can't figure a way to make the fix
Charles> either permenant or automatic. The fix (in case you haven't
Charles> seen it is to run "cdrecord -scanbus" to check for the
Charles> presence of a working CD-RW, then to type "cd /dev && rm
Charles> cdrom && ln -s scd0 cdrom" in a terminal) This fix works but
Charles> there's got to be a better way...any thoughts.
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