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Hi, Gentoo? |
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I've a newly installed system, now working with my own special |
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optimiesed keyboard layout. :-) |
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However, I can't access my DVD drives. I know at least one of them |
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works, because I installed Gentoo from it. |
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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, |
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there was a CD in the drive, and /cdrom exists. |
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What does "special device" mean here? Does it mean the physcial |
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hardware, the controller chip, the directory entry /dev/hdc, the driver |
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in the kernel, or what? What is "special" about my DVD writer? |
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Well, to answer some of my questions, I was missing a /dev/hdc, so I |
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made one with |
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# mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0 |
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. This didn't help one iota. I had a look at dmesg, but there was no |
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mention of hdc in it. (It did mention hdg, hdh, where my main hard |
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drives are (don't ask!)). |
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My kernel is an up to date linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r6. I _think_ it's got |
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all the needed options set in the configuration. Can anybody suggest |
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how to get my system to recognise my DVD drives? |
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Thanks in advance! |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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