Re: mknod, /dev/hdb, /dev/cdrom problem

[Andrea Vettorello <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 02:45:23 +0200, Necati DEMiR <ndemir@demir.web.tr> wrote:
> Andrea Vettorello wrote:
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> >On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:38:34 +0200, Necati DEMiR <ndemir@demir.web.tr> wrote:
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> >>it is a cd-writer. i think debian knows a cd-writer is connected and
> >>loads the module ide-scsi, but it doesn't create hdb,cdrom or sr* under
> >>/dev/ directory.
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> >>it is not problem for me to use my cd-writer as a cd-rom. i wanna use it
> >>as a cdrom. After solving this problem, i will try to use it as a
> >>cd-writer, but my first aim is, to mount my cd-rom. OK? :)
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> >First of all don't use SCSI emulation for your CD-ROM, then check if
> >in your /etc/udev/rules.d there's a symlink to ../cd-aliases.rules, if
> >not present create it, then restart udev...
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> i did the followings;
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> # ls -al /etc/udev/rules.d/
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Dec 26 18:37 .
> drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4096 Jan  3 19:46 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   19 Dec 26 18:37 cd-aliases.rules ->
> ../cd-aliases.rules
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   13 Dec 26 18:37 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   12 Dec 26 18:27 z_hal-plugdev.rules ->
> ../hal.rules
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> # cd /etc/init.d
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> # ./udev restart
> Recreating device nodes...done.
> 
> # ls /dev/
> MAKEDEV  hda7       ram0    shm      tty19  tty35  tty51  ttyS1

[...]

> ttyS41  urandom
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> as you see there is no hdb or cdrom still!
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Have you checked if you have at least "ide-cd" module loaded? 
Modprobe it if not. And put a line in your /etc/modules too if not
present. The "ide-cd" depends on "ide-core" and "cdrom", so modprobing
it should load them too...


Andrea