Le Mars 4, 2002 01:07 AM, Borsenkow Andrej a �crit : > > > Please, give also > > > > > > ls -l /dev/pcd* > > > > $ls -l /dev/pcd* > > brw-rw---- 1 marc cdwriter 46, 0 Feb 10 13:59 /dev/pcd0 > > brw-rw---- 1 marc cdwriter 46, 1 Feb 10 13:59 /dev/pcd1 > > brw-rw---- 1 marc cdwriter 46, 2 Feb 10 13:59 /dev/pcd2 > > brw-rw---- 1 marc cdwriter 46, 3 Feb 10 13:59 /dev/pcd3 > > 1. what version of Mandrake are you running?
I run currently 8.1 on this machine (laptop). > 2. Do you use devfs? Do you mount devfs? Yes I use devfs and I pass devfs=mount as a kernel parameter at boot time (as Mandrake set it up). > 3. who created these files? They must not exist with mounted devfs I don't remember having created these files. I surely used this script taken from this howto : http://www.torque.net/parport/paride.html #!/bin/bash # # mkd -- a script to create the device special files for the PARIDE subsystem # function mkdev { mknod $1 $2 $3 $4 ; chmod 0660 $1 ; chown root:disk $1 } # function pd { D=$( printf \\$( printf "x%03x" $[ $1 + 97 ] ) ) mkdev pd$D b 45 $[ $1 * 16 ] for P in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 do mkdev pd$D$P b 45 $[ $1 * 16 + $P ] done } # cd /dev # for u in 0 1 2 3 ; do pd $u ; done for u in 0 1 2 3 ; do mkdev pcd$u b 46 $u ; done for u in 0 1 2 3 ; do mkdev pf$u b 47 $u ; done for u in 0 1 2 3 ; do mkdev pt$u c 96 $u ; done for u in 0 1 2 3 ; do mkdev npt$u c 96 $[ $u + 128 ] ; done for u in 0 1 2 3 ; do mkdev pg$u c 97 $u ; done # # end of mkd #With the device files and drivers in place, you can #access PARIDE devices l#ike any other Linux device. For example, to mount a CD-ROM in pcd0, use: #mount /dev/pcd0 /cdrom --------- end of script > 4. Please, next time answer to all people the messages is Cc'd to. I do > not Cc just for fun of it. Sorry about that. > -andrej I also added modprobe pg in /etc/rc.d/rc.local and the trick works. I believe there is a better way though. marc
