On Sun September 30 2007 20:17, Nick Schmalenberger wrote: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 08:01:10PM -0700, Richard Harke wrote: > > I installed debian etch a couple of months ago and had no occasion > > to use the CDROM drive until recently. I was trying to play a CD and > > kept getting an error. I found there is no node in /dev for it. I did > > find a node in /dev/.static/dev but of course no app will look there. > > This seems to be related to udev some how. I found a lof file in > > /var/log/installer called hardware-summary. according to that there was a > > CD drive recognized and the driver modules installed. Now the driver > > modules are not installed. (I had to re-boot because of a power outage) > > As I understand it, udevd is supposed to get an event from the kernel > > and craeate the node dynamically but how can it get an event when there > > are no drivers? Is there some program to run to get this to work? > > What driver is it? Is it on a different bus or controller than the hard > drive? I suppose that works if you are at that point. Does dmesg say > anything about your cd driver getting loaded? > Nick Schmalenberger This is an ide drive on the second channel. Before the re-install I could just address it as /dev/hdb I grepped all the /var/log/message* files for cd or hdb with no result. In /dev/.static/dev there is an alias, cdrom which links to hdb
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