Re: wrong major or minor number

[Philipp Schulte <p.schulte@matrix.uni-duisburg.de>]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 01:07:32PM -0800, Collin Peters wrote: 

> I made a bad move awhile ago and accidentaly deleted my linux
> source.  I 're-apted' it when I needed to re-compile and everything
> worked fine except my cdrom. I have scsi emulation installed for my
> burner and it still works fine.  When trying to mount the normal
> cdrom, though, it gives me the message '/dev/cdrom has a wrong major
> or minor number'.  /dev/cdrom is a symlink to /dev/scd1.  Any ideas
> on how to fix this without recompiling again?  

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