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 1EBYb0-0004sz-0i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 14:02:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j83DwWQm021601; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 13:58:32 GMT Received: from daniel.home ([222.65.73.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j83Ds3oL020315 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 13:54:05 GMT Received: by daniel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D458BFA62; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 21:56:31 +0800 (CST) Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 21:56:31 +0800 From: danielhf@21cn.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone! Message-ID: <20050903135631.GA7579@daniel> References: <20050903101937.GA6595@daniel> <43199CE5.80909@akeeper.ru> <4319A32A.5060602@erols.com> <200509030840.20191.john@jolet.net> 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: <200509030840.20191.john@jolet.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 940430e7-edd6-4df3-9257-f4c1c6449ddb X-Archives-Hash: 88ee54d7d34d94898868de603a633cb0 i did read that document, to find the doc is trivial. what i got is just similar. the udev just create the device files which were detected by kernel, and handle the operations like add or remove dynamically. i tried this feature with my usb devices already, i really like the way udev works. i could not found any info from the output of dmesg, so i think perhaps there is a problem on detecting the device, but not the problem of udev. thanks daniel On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 08:40:20AM -0500, John Jolet wrote: > On Saturday 03 September 2005 08:20, Matt Randolph wrote: > > Alex Korshunov wrote: > > > danielhf@21cn.com wrote: > > >> On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 08:32:56PM +0800, danielhf@21cn.com wrote: > > >> > > >> no error on reboot now, but i will try to switch to windows to see > > >> if the cdrom works well.... > > > > > > All my cdroms in /dev/cdroms/cdrom. May be...? > > > > I didn't see the beginning of this thread so my question may be > > redundant. Did you (the OP) verify that the drive is still detected by > > the BIOS? > having done some research yesterday on udev, specifically the gentoo udev > howto, it was my understanding that udev did NOT create node files. those > must exist and udev just manages the mappings to those files. that's what > the tar/untar process on shutdown/boot takes care of. devfs, on the other > hand DID take care of those files. the gentoo udev howto specifically gives > a walkthrough on the steps necessary to switch from a hybrid udev/devfs > system to a pure udev system. Have you looked at that document? > Unfortunately, I don't remember the link at this moment, but I linked to it > from the udev stuff at kernel.org. > -- > John Jolet > Your On-Demand IT Department > 512-762-0729 > www.jolet.net > john@jolet.net > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list