unfortunetly, hdc does not exist either. and dmesg does not show anything about my cdrom or hdc. just odd.
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:36:49PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > > i upgrade my system to use udev instead of previously known devfs, > > and leave the devfs option blank while configure the kernel, but > > recently, i found i could not mount my cdrom, there is no such device > > at all! the /dev/cdrom and the like has gone! > > > > i test with my usb disk, and the /dev/ directory could add and remove > > the sda1 device node accordingly, it seems that everything goes > > well. but where is my cdrom? > > > > i have changed the /etc/conf.d/rc, and replace > > RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" with RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no" several days > > ago, because i think that'll be ok for me, and everything seems > > working with the exception of the cdrom i found today! > > > > the rule file under the etc/udev/rules.d/ makes no sense to me, > > > > any ideas please, thanks a lot. > > /dev/cdrom (or in my case, /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdrw, and /dev/dvd) are just > symlinks to the real device anyway. > > The real device is hd* (in my case, 'hdc', because the CD/DVD drive is the > master on the second IDE channel, as my hard drive is hda because it's > master on the first channel). > > So maybe try looking for the actual device, instead of a symlink (which > has apparently been removed), and see if that gets you any further. > > HTH, > Holly > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
