Re: [gentoo-user] mount: "special device /dev/hdc does not exist". What does this mean?

[Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@googlemail.com>]

Alan Mackenzie schrieb:
>>> 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
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>> mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom
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> Maybe.  Is that different?
> 

Yeah, there is a space between -t and iso9660 :-)

> 
>> 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.
> 
> No, the box is no longer young, and contains no SATA or SCSI bits at all.
> I'm just going away to see if I've got any /dev/s[gr]X on the box. ....
> 
> No, I've got no /dev/s[gr]X at all.
> 
> Could it be that the kernel has looked at hd[ab], found nothing there,
> and therefore decided "it's not worth the bother even looking at
> hd[cd]"?
> 

Hmm, maybe the output of `dmesg`, `lspci -v` and `ls -al /dev` could be 
helpful. Probably also your kernel configuration.