Alan Mackenzie schrieb:
Hi, Gentoo?
I've a newly installed system, now working with my own special
optimiesed keyboard layout. :-)
However, I can't access my DVD drives. I know at least one of them
works, because I installed Gentoo from it.
When I do
mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom
, it comes back with "special device /dev/hdc does not exist". And yes,
there was a CD in the drive, and /cdrom exists.
Do you mean
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom
What does "special device" mean here? Does it mean the physcial
hardware, the controller chip, the directory entry /dev/hdc, the driver
in the kernel, or what? What is "special" about my DVD writer?
It means the directory entry /dev/hdc.
Well, to answer some of my questions, I was missing a /dev/hdc, so I
made one with
# mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0
. This didn't help one iota. I had a look at dmesg, but there was no
mention of hdc in it. (It did mention hdg, hdh, where my main hard
drives are (don't ask!)).
Can't resist what is on hd{a-f}
My kernel is an up to date linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r6. I _think_ it's got
all the needed options set in the configuration. Can anybody suggest
how to get my system to recognise my DVD drives?
Thanks in advance!
What kind of DVD writer do you have maybe it is sata or scsi, and it
wiil appear under /dev/srX or /dev/sgX. Or if you use the new libata
library in the kernel even IDE devices are under /dev/srX or /dev/sgX.
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