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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Missing device files for cdroms
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:54:26
Message-Id: 7573e9640607200045s135a9136hf219e0748524d160@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Missing device files for cdroms by don
1 On 7/19/06, don <don_reid@×××××××.net> wrote:
2 > I have a system with an SATA hard drive, and two IDE cdroms.
3 >
4 > The kernel sees them as shown by these lines in /var/log/messages
5 >
6 > ==============================================================================
7 > Jul 7 21:19:31 reid1 kernel: hda: SONY DVD-ROM DDU1615, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
8 > Jul 7 21:19:31 reid1 kernel: hdb: SONY DVD RW DW-Q120A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
9 > Jul 7 21:19:31 reid1 kernel: hda: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 1725kB Cache, UDMA(33)
10 > Jul 7 21:19:31 reid1 kernel: hdb: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(66)
11 > ==============================================================================
12 >
13 > However there are no devices files /dev/cdrom or /dev/cdroms/.
14
15 What about /dev/hda and /dev/hdb? Do those exist?
16
17 -Richard
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