[NTLUG:Discuss] kernel sees CDROM on /dev/hdc during bootup, but can't mount it..

[Richard Geoffrion]

I had the CDROM as primary-slave at one point, but to no avail.

As for the mknod command.  I verified that it IS on the installation file
system, but I don't know how to use it.  'mknod -b hdc' didn't work....it
gave me a seg. fault.  What would be the correct command?

while I'm waiting... This computer has a samsung hard drive....I remember
that some of the old IDE hard drives had a setting for master/no slave and
master w/slave.  I'll try researching that.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Hauck" <xdesign at hotmail.com>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 7:24 AM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] kernel sees CDROM on /dev/hdc during bootup,
but can't mount it..


> I haven't played with slackware for years but I can suggest that you just
> create the /dev entry by using the mknod command.
>
> I recall from my early experience with slackware that it didn't like
having
> non-contiguous IDE devices.  So if your CDROM was Secondary Master and
there
> was no Primary Slave, there was a problem.  In other words, if there is no
> device on /dev/hdb it will not register a device on /dev/hdc.  At least
> that's the way it used to be.  It sort of makes sense in a way too... in a
> weird sort of way.
>
> So have you tried to mknod an entry??
>