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! -- Second dvd-rw does not list on /dev https://launchpad.net/bugs/49813 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs