Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Gentoo?
I've a newly installed system, now working with my own special
optimiesed keyboard layout. :-)
However, I can't access my DVD drives. I know at least one of them
works, because I installed Gentoo from it.
When I do
mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom
, it comes back with "special device /dev/hdc does not exist". And yes,
there was a CD in the drive, and /cdrom exists.
What does "special device" mean here? Does it mean the physcial
hardware, the controller chip, the directory entry /dev/hdc, the driver
in the kernel, or what? What is "special" about my DVD writer?
/dev/hdc (and other files in /dev) are not called "files", they're
called "special devices").
Well, to answer some of my questions, I was missing a /dev/hdc, so I
made one with
# mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0
. This didn't help one iota. I had a look at dmesg, but there was no
mention of hdc in it. (It did mention hdg, hdh, where my main hard
drives are (don't ask!)).
Use /dev/sdc instead of /dev/hdc. The default in new kernels is to only
use /dev/sd*.
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