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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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> 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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> 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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> 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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