From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EBWuQ-0007rX-LV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 12:14:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j83CAVL5013891; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 12:10:31 GMT Received: from daniel.home ([222.65.78.71]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j83C6oDL014857 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 12:06:51 GMT Received: by daniel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A08C1FA62; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 20:08:52 +0800 (CST) Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 20:08:52 +0800 From: danielhf@21cn.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/cdrom has gone! Message-ID: <20050903120852.GA10437@daniel> References: <20050903101937.GA6595@daniel> <43197CC1.9030406@planet.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43197CC1.9030406@planet.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: e62aa30e-19d8-42e6-b14e-67c336eea5c6 X-Archives-Hash: 4c93906b67ab3b1da0685c45b2d3f6b8 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 > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list