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 1KKKNL-0005Yx-Q0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:54:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B16AE0119; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:53:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.155]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A266E0119 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:53:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so612796fga.14 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:53:56 -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=pbxA42azBhftaeFLLfAxrFGE9HMhwDABKswwryLBwwg=; b=oZmU7ApWDD12eKZTKKRvk7WhB1IrVpEU+GuEr/2LmCmd183VzZ57xSqVdtqvscKqhA BJvE1K1uzCS0iiPf1tWxV+JUbJDRw9vcvWa9GOCxNM/xIXn7r1KkRhyaiLuXlbsfN5TZ RN2dfXlTyPGX8QQUecOFlbMhiVyNCoZUvutCc= 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=ok534MTmOVaDYFiYL4xncKTx3roPmRgvw2VHGGn5dFeU/hC04DKTh/V1GdbbzXJS1s MJS2DsBUBxla8+fI6p/LqLvZ0YoGxbU7CzmCbJEGXvhe/ryr7thHnfWLsdxBFHBGZq5u WOvkFKEFs/THvJwanA+M05C5B8Y9l82ZjDckU= Received: by 10.86.23.17 with SMTP id 17mr2609797fgw.32.1216504436700; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:53:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.2? ( [92.75.229.173]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l12sm4348943fgb.6.2008.07.19.14.53.55 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:53:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4882625A.7060503@googlemail.com> Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:53:30 +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> <48823C4D.1060108@googlemail.com> <20080719214114.GA896@muc.de> In-Reply-To: <20080719214114.GA896@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: 11d3acf8-b188-4035-bcae-edb2cc84adbe X-Archives-Hash: b5d1688e1b088e5d185331721199e04b 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 > >> mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom > > 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.