Second dvd-rw does not list on /dev

I have found same problem this:

http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1640

See the above URL for details. Basically if a system has more than one CDROM drive, only the last one detected will get the /dev/cdrom symlink. In addition to this, we don't appear to handle DVD drives similarly. Do we want to? If so, I'd rather we build the 'cdrom_id' helper and use that to correctly determine drive capabilities (see the gentoo rules in the udev tarball for example usage).

This is perfectly normal. We only provide a symlink for one device, where you have multiple.

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For more reliable symlinks to all your devices, use /dev/disk/by-*

Normal !!!, other linux distributions map any cdrom/dvd.
Because nautilus show only one cdrom/dvd on my system with two drive ?

Sorry for my bad english

Actually all other distributions have chosen to do exactly the same thing ... we've all deprecated multiple /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd, etc. symlinks in favour of /dev/disk/by-*

If Nautilus only shows one drive you have an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT PROBLEM. Nautilus uses HAL, and doesn't care about these symlinks at all!

Ok , sorry
I search problem on nautilus and HAL.
Thanks

> For more reliable symlinks to all your devices, use
> /dev/disk/by-*

Recently, I discovered that my system suffers from this problem as well, but AFAIU, the suggested workaround uses somehow /dev/disk/by-* to create (?) the missing symlink in /dev.

In my case /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrw *both* point to /dev/hdd (that is the IDE CD-RW), I need to have /dev/cdrom to link to /dev/hdc (the IDE CD-ROM).

I'd appreciate if someone provides some more details how to use the above suggestion in order to get a link /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc, while preserving the existing /dev/cdrw -> /dev/hdd.

TIA!