On 7/21/99 07:49, blseals at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, T. Sean (Theo) Schulze wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I tried to mount my CDROM drive (/dev/hdc) the other day and was
>> surprised by this message:
>>
>> Mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/hdc as a block device (maybe
>> 'insmod driver'?)
>>
>> This happens with both a 2.2.9 and a 2.2.10 kernel, but when I boot using
>> Tom's root/boot disk (kernel 2.0.36), I can mount /dev/hdc to /cdrom no
>> problem.
>>
[List of kernel configuration items and system description snipped.]
>>
>> Any thoughts on where I could continue to look for the problem?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>> Theo. Sean Schulze
>>
>--
>
>Any chance that you've somehow managed to change your existing /dev/hdc
>from a
>block to a character device?
>
>Here's what /dev/hdc (my CD-ROM player) looks like on my Caldera OpenLinux
>2.2 system:
>
>[blseals@tulsa blseals]$ ls -la /dev/hdc
>brw-rw-r-- 1 root operator 22, 0 Apr 3 15:47 /dev/hdc
>[blseals@tulsa blseals]$
When I do 'ls -alF /dev/hdc', I get:
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 0 Jan 20 1999 /dev/hdc
So, it is a block device. Is that missing read permission significant?
Thanks,
Sean
T. Sean (Theo) Schulze
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