* Re: [gentoo-user] mount: "special device /dev/hdc does not exist". What does this mean?
@ 2008-07-19 21:53 99% ` Daniel Pielmeier
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From: Daniel Pielmeier @ 2008-07-19 21:53 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Alan Mackenzie schrieb:
>>> When I do
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>>> mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom
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>>> , it comes back with "special device /dev/hdc does not exist". And yes,
>>> there was a CD in the drive, and /cdrom exists.
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>> Do you mean
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>> mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom
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> Maybe. Is that different?
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Yeah, there is a space between -t and iso9660 :-)
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>> 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.
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> 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. ....
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> No, I've got no /dev/s[gr]X at all.
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> 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]"?
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Hmm, maybe the output of `dmesg`, `lspci -v` and `ls -al /dev` could be
helpful. Probably also your kernel configuration.
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