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PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 5:42 pm    Post subject: missing /dev/hd* now [SOLVED] Reply with quote

What creates /dev/hd*

$ dmesg | grep hda
hda: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

$ ls /dev/hd*
ls: cannot access /dev/hd*: No such file or directory


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 5:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe your hard drive is on /dev/sda
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 7:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The hard drives are /dev/sd because they are sata.
The IDE cdrom is missing from /dev
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 7:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bjlockie,

If you have set up your DVD under SCSI and libata, it will be /dev/sr0
udev creates device nodes in response to the kernel discovering a device.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 8:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NeddySeagoon wrote:
bjlockie,

If you have set up your DVD under SCSI and libata, it will be /dev/sr0
udev creates device nodes in response to the kernel discovering a device.


grr, not there.
It must be somewhere since dmesg said it was found.

# ls /dev
XOR loop0 ram1 rtc0 tty0 tty27 tty45 tty63 vcs
block loop1 ram10 sda tty1 tty28 tty46 tty7 vcs1
bsg loop2 ram11 sda1 tty10 tty29 tty47 tty8 vcs2
bus loop3 ram12 sda2 tty11 tty3 tty48 tty9 vcs3
char loop4 ram13 sda3 tty12 tty30 tty49 ttyS0 vcs4
console loop5 ram14 sda4 tty13 tty31 tty5 ttyS1 vcs5
core loop6 ram15 sda5 tty14 tty32 tty50 ttyS2 vcs6
cpu loop7 ram2 sdb tty15 tty33 tty51 ttyS3 vcs7
cpu_dma_latency mem ram3 sdb1 tty16 tty34 tty52 urandom vcsa
disk network_latency ram4 sdb2 tty17 tty35 tty53 usbdev1.1_ep00 vcsa1
fd network_throughput ram5 sdb3 tty18 tty36 tty54 usbdev1.1_ep81 vcsa2
full null ram6 sg0 tty19 tty37 tty55 usbdev2.1_ep00 vcsa3
gpmctl nvidia0 ram7 sg1 tty2 tty38 tty56 usbdev2.1_ep81 vcsa4
hpet nvidiactl ram8 shm tty20 tty39 tty57 usbdev2.2_ep00 vcsa5
initctl nvram ram9 snapshot tty21 tty4 tty58 usbdev2.2_ep03 vcsa6
input port ramdisk snd tty22 tty40 tty59 usbdev2.2_ep81 vcsa7
kmem ptmx random stderr tty23 tty41 tty6 usbdev2.2_ep82 video
kmsg pts rd stdin tty24 tty42 tty60 v4l video0
lircd ram root stdout tty25 tty43 tty61 vbi zero
loop ram0 rtc tty tty26 tty44 tty62 vbi0
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 9:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bjlockie,

dmesg can detect that your CDROM is present but the kernel can still lack the code to drive it properly.
This happens when you have the low level chipset driver but not the high level SCSI or IDE CDROM driver.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 10:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NeddySeagoon wrote:
bjlockie,

dmesg can detect that your CDROM is present but the kernel can still lack the code to drive it properly.
This happens when you have the low level chipset driver but not the high level SCSI or IDE CDROM driver.


Thanks, that gives me something to look for.
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