050903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> my BIOS infomation shows my cdrom is at the third IDE primary,
> so i do: 'mknod -m 660 hde b 33 0' ...

What happened in that case ?  That ought to be what you want.

> ... and later i tried 'mknod -m 660 hdc b 23 0'
> the output: "hdc is not a valid block device"

I changed over a couple of days ago & have the correct devices in  /dev .
Are you using an upto-date kernel ( 2.6.12-gentoo-r<nn> ) ?

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