> > I have found, the hard way, that there are neither /dev/hdc* nor > > /dev/cdrom in my ThinkPad R40e laptop Debian/testing/non-US/main > > installation. > > [snip] > > I did find that there is something called udev, which was supposed to > > automatically create the device files when CD-ROM is recognized. > > The CD-ROM device was recognized (there are the appropriate dmesg > > messages, and there are both /proc/ide/ide0/hda and /proc/ide/ide1/hdc > > directories, whose "files" inside them have the information > > corresponding to correctly-identified hard drive and CD-ROM > > respectively).
Do you have udev installed? And what about devfsd? These two conflict each other. I think devfs is depricated anyway, but I'm not sure. [snip] > > What should I check for now? > > I do not want to manually create /dev/hdc!!! > > > > --- Omer You shouldn't create device files manually with udev or devfs because the files will be erased on the next boot. If you have udev installed, check /sys to see if the cdrom appears there (try /sys/bus/ide). -- Haggai Eran [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
