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Disappearing Optical Drives

Posted on Mar 19, 2020 by kingbeowulf

One of my Slackware systems has two optical drives: Blu-Ray and DVD: /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1. In 14.2 as well as current, if neither are used for awhile, some of the udev symlinks to /dev/sr0 disappear. This becomes maddening (as in WTF?) when I'm trying to run my qemu VMs and I get the error:

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Disappearing Optical Drives

Mar 19, 2020

kingbeowulf