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<!-- If you use by-id mode, the symlinks will survive even the transition
to libata for IDE drives, but that is not for the book. -->
- <important>External devices (for example, a USB-connected CD drive) should
- not use by-path persistence, because each time the device is plugged into a
- new external port, its physical path will change. All externally-connected
- devices will have this problem if you write Udev rules to recognize them
- by their physical path; the problem is not limited to CD and DVD drives.</important>
+ <important><para>External devices (for example, a USB-connected CD drive)
+ should not use by-path persistence, because each time the device is plugged
+ into a new external port, its physical path will change. All
+ externally-connected devices will have this problem if you write Udev rules
+ to recognize them by their physical path; the problem is not limited to CD
+ and DVD drives.</para></important>
<para>If you wish to see the values that the Udev scripts will use, then
for the appropriate CD-ROM device, find the corresponding directory under