Make sure your hard disk is not /dev/hda And then if you are using a modern distro that doesn’t have a static device tree, but are using udev ... take a look at this.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.2/chapter07/symlinks.html suresh > -----Original Message----- > From: Vivek Sharma [mailto:vi...@hqr.drdo.in] > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:12 AM > To: linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [LIH] hda to hdc > > I have a binary code (for which I don't have a source code), which is > using CDROM(supposedly /dev/hdc) as source of some files required for > it's full functionality. But the new machine I procured has only one > ide > controller and the cdrom is loaded as /dev/hda instead of /dev/hdc. The > program is not working. I tried creating a link named hdc to hda but > that also didn't work out. Even copying didn't work out. I request if > somebody can tell how can I load /dev/hda to /dev/hdc(required for > cdrom > only). I can't even compile a new kernel as kernel provided along has > been hardened to work only for this code. > > Thanks in anticipation. > > Vivek > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
