On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 09:10:39PM -0600, shock wrote: > * Michael D. Schleif (mds@helices.org) spake thusly: > > > > Does the required device exist? > > > > man MAKEDEV > > cd dev; ./MAKEDEV [ -n ] [ -v ] update > > # ls -al /dev/cdrom > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Dec 29 20:53 /dev/cdrom -> sr0 > > # ls -al /dev/sr0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dec 13 19:32 /dev/sr0 -> scd0 Gross. Just link /dev/cdrom to /dev/scd0 > # ls -al /dev/scd0 > crw-r--r-- 1 root root 21, 0 Dec 13 19:54 /dev/scd0 > > afaik, this is correct. right? Nope. Taking a look at Documentation/devices.txt in kernel sources, char major 21 is SCSI generic. Block major 11 is SCSI CD-ROM. Your /dev seems a bit messed up. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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