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Hi, Daniel |
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On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 09:11:09PM +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: |
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> Alan Mackenzie schrieb: |
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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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> 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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> >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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> It means the directory entry /dev/hdc. |
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OK. |
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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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> Can't resist what is on hd{a-f} |
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Nothing on hd[abef], a DVD writer on hdc and a DVD reader on hdd. My PC |
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was built in 2001, and the 2 "onboard" IDE ports are "ordinary" IDE, |
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whereas the two IDE ports "stuck on the side" do UDMA66. |
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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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> What kind of DVD writer do you have maybe it is sata or scsi, and it |
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> wiil appear under /dev/srX or /dev/sgX. Or if you use the new libata |
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> 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. |
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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, |
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and therefore decided "it's not worth the bother even looking at |
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hd[cd]"? |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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