Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/cdrom has gone!

[danielhf@21cn.com]

unfortunetly, hdc does not exist either.
and dmesg does not show anything about my
cdrom or hdc. just odd.

On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:36:49PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
> danielhf@21cn.com schreef:
> > i upgrade my system to use udev instead of previously known devfs, 
> > and leave the devfs option blank while configure the kernel, but 
> > recently, i found i could not mount my cdrom, there is no such device
> >  at all! the /dev/cdrom and the like has gone!
> > 
> > i test with my usb disk, and the /dev/ directory could add and remove
> >  the sda1 device node accordingly, it seems that everything goes 
> > well. but where is my cdrom?
> > 
> > i have changed the /etc/conf.d/rc, and replace 
> > RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" with RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no"  several days 
> > ago, because i think that'll be ok for me, and everything seems 
> > working with the exception of the cdrom i found today!
> > 
> > the rule file under the etc/udev/rules.d/ makes no sense to me,
> > 
> > any ideas please, thanks a lot.
> 
> /dev/cdrom (or in my case, /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdrw, and /dev/dvd) are just
> symlinks to the real device anyway.
> 
> The real device is hd* (in my case, 'hdc', because the CD/DVD drive is the
> master on the second IDE channel, as my hard drive is hda because it's
> master on the first channel).
> 
> So maybe try looking for the actual device, instead of a symlink (which
> has apparently been removed), and see if that gets you any further.
> 
> HTH,
> Holly
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