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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
