Re: Missing device node
On Thursday 18 August 2005 18:15, Graham Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I seem to be missing a device node but I am unsure as to how I should get
> it back.
>
> I have a machine that has just two ide devices the hard drive and an old
> DVD drive. There is a device node /dev/hda that corresponds to the HD but
> not /dev/hdc for the DVD drive. This latter node has only disappeared since
> I upgraded to kernel version 2.6.12 (two days ago). I suspect, although I
> have no evidence for this, that is has something to do with udev as that is
> the only "important" thing that start working AFAIK when I upgraded from
> 2.6.11.
>
> The machine certainly seems to be able to find the drive at boot time as
> this extract from dmesg shows
>
> Probing IDE interface ide0...
> hda: Maxtor 6Y120L0, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> Probing IDE interface ide1...
> hdc: CREATIVE DVD-ROM DVD6240E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> ...
> hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, DMA
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
>
> I am running the amd64 unstable port and have udev and hotplug installed.
>
> Any ideas what is wrong?
>
> Graham
This problem seems to have fixed itself with an upgrade of the udev library to
0.068-1. Don't know if this is _actually_ why the node has reappeared but it
has.
Graham
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