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 1KKHlW-0006XC-Vi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:06:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C273DE039C; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:06:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9677AE039C for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:06:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3343066904 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:06:44 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.599 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.599 required=5.5 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id mXwtgFAGByT0 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:06:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CF99668C2 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:06:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KKHlE-0002mj-FT for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:06:28 +0000 Received: from athedsl-26376.home.otenet.gr ([87.202.103.214]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:06:28 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-26376.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:06:28 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: "special device /dev/hdc does not exist". What does this mean? Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:06:15 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20080719185157.GA2376@muc.de> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-26376.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080421 Thunderbird/2.0.0.14 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: <20080719185157.GA2376@muc.de> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 5df303be-2f07-4536-aef2-68831ccbf6f9 X-Archives-Hash: d6f05ffaa32b9150a655bec35ce7d8e4 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > 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. > > 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? /dev/hdc (and other files in /dev) are not called "files", they're called "special devices"). > 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!)). Use /dev/sdc instead of /dev/hdc. The default in new kernels is to only use /dev/sd*. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list