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From: Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mount: "special device /dev/hdc does not exist". What does this mean?
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:54:00
Message-Id: 4882625A.7060503@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] mount: "special device /dev/hdc does not exist". What does this mean? by Alan Mackenzie
1 Alan Mackenzie schrieb:
2 >>> When I do
3 >
4 >>> mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom
5 >
6 >>> , it comes back with "special device /dev/hdc does not exist". And yes,
7 >>> there was a CD in the drive, and /cdrom exists.
8 >
9 >> Do you mean
10 >
11 >> mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom
12 >
13 > Maybe. Is that different?
14 >
15
16 Yeah, there is a space between -t and iso9660 :-)
17
18 >
19 >> What kind of DVD writer do you have maybe it is sata or scsi, and it
20 >> wiil appear under /dev/srX or /dev/sgX. Or if you use the new libata
21 >> library in the kernel even IDE devices are under /dev/srX or /dev/sgX.
22 >
23 > No, the box is no longer young, and contains no SATA or SCSI bits at all.
24 > I'm just going away to see if I've got any /dev/s[gr]X on the box. ....
25 >
26 > No, I've got no /dev/s[gr]X at all.
27 >
28 > Could it be that the kernel has looked at hd[ab], found nothing there,
29 > and therefore decided "it's not worth the bother even looking at
30 > hd[cd]"?
31 >
32
33 Hmm, maybe the output of `dmesg`, `lspci -v` and `ls -al /dev` could be
34 helpful. Probably also your kernel configuration.