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Re: /dev/hdc gone after restart



On Friday 02 June 2006 11:31, Craig Hagerman wrote:
> For some reason I just lost my cdrom / dvd drive (same). I did an
> update and upgrade, burned a CD in k3b and all was working well. I
> came home to find that the computer had crashed hard - no mouse, no
> keyboard, couldn't log in remotely, nothing worked. I restarted and
> everything is OK except that I no longer have the CD drive. By that I
> mean there is no longer and entry for /dev/hdc, no symlinks pointing
> to /dev/dvd and /dev/cdrom as there used to be. I suspect that maybe
> this is a problem with udev not adding the dvd drive, but I have
> absolutely no idea how to troubleshoot this issue. Has anyone seen
> anything like this before? Any suggestions on how I can get /dev/hdc
> back and working again?
>
> Craig

Try booting up with a rescue disc and see if the CD drive shows up.  I use 
SLAX  {based on Slackware}  as my preferred diags/rescue tool just because 
it's quicker to download than Debian-based Knoppix.

If Slax/Knoppix fail to see the CD drive, then it's probably faulty and might 
even have been what caused the crash in the first place.

-- 
AJS



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