From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKHqB-0006im-Lr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:11:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A611E03E1; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:11:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.154]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30291E03E1 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:11:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so581752fga.14 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:11:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=PzENbdB9NrStO2yK3k1KD8jGcpyB+bzBoz5BT63CkFQ=; b=eybCQA0S0YILdrBOdF8CdebeEv/L4ipFLUCDhm+/Ckys63JOvd9teAFGYho+ejuk4M HJPCVB3wZs/dVrymWDdyL94pUagghYexJJZ1fXkjJBTrzjB7sZZ3ZJCdb0b3BGwdBXgo tm85WrdkEQCQgeye54jLLFa9xVvp/qlthWuHo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=tGWCl4NYwRi+xGLpu1US+B2Z2s1vH7bmObfqqPbu65Pqo/Dra93wI5e+EEwJfxIMD7 ++0iJHd4w7R09bnBx2y00H7jqkAX5XDD4KQTn4/xSuWnscZIZGcbYgfnOZgT1erS8K/u JSFJgpYeNeoTxrQAC+OZc13sEoIm/8ouKybd8= Received: by 10.86.90.13 with SMTP id n13mr2466185fgb.3.1216494693404; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:11:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.2? ( [92.75.229.173]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e20sm973865fga.1.2008.07.19.12.11.32 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:11:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48823C4D.1060108@googlemail.com> Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:11:09 +0200 From: Daniel Pielmeier User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080518) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mount: "special device /dev/hdc does not exist". What does this mean? References: <20080719185157.GA2376@muc.de> In-Reply-To: <20080719185157.GA2376@muc.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2a8d1c2b-c92b-47fd-a08b-fd80e5032262 X-Archives-Hash: a0df7ce5aca72fff18b0c8140829c1e1 Alan Mackenzie schrieb: > Hi, Gentoo? > > I've a newly installed system, now working with my own special > optimiesed keyboard layout. :-) > > However, I can't access my DVD drives. I know at least one of them > works, because I installed Gentoo from it. > > When I do > > mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom > > , it comes back with "special device /dev/hdc does not exist". And yes, > there was a CD in the drive, and /cdrom exists. Do you mean mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom > What does "special device" mean here? Does it mean the physcial > hardware, the controller chip, the directory entry /dev/hdc, the driver > in the kernel, or what? What is "special" about my DVD writer? It means the directory entry /dev/hdc. > Well, to answer some of my questions, I was missing a /dev/hdc, so I > made one with > > # mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0 > > . This didn't help one iota. I had a look at dmesg, but there was no > mention of hdc in it. (It did mention hdg, hdh, where my main hard > drives are (don't ask!)). Can't resist what is on hd{a-f} > My kernel is an up to date linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r6. I _think_ it's got > all the needed options set in the configuration. Can anybody suggest > how to get my system to recognise my DVD drives? > > Thanks in advance! > What kind of DVD writer do you have maybe it is sata or scsi, and it wiil appear under /dev/srX or /dev/sgX. Or if you use the new libata library in the kernel even IDE devices are under /dev/srX or /dev/sgX. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list