[NTLUG:Discuss] I love you guys! was -- kernel sees CDROM

[Richard Geoffrion]

You guys are the greatest!  'mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0' did the trick!  I don't
know why slack didn't configure the CDROM drive on its own. Go figure?

Thank you
-Richard (the Slackware installing fool... heh heh)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Hauck" <xdesign at hotmail.com>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] kernel sees CDROM on /dev/hdc during bootup,
but can't mount it..


> Okay.
>
> # mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0
> # mknod /dev/hdc1 b 22 1
> # mknod /dev/hdc2 b 22 2
> # mknod /dev/hdc3 b 22 3 <continue this pattern until 16>
>
> For more details, try "mknod --help"
>
> The question here is how/when the mknod entry is made.  If it didn't see a
> secondary slave at install time, then it might never have created an entry
> for anything beyond /dev/hda devices.
>
> I suspect you already see that hda is primary master, hdb is primary slave
> and hdc is secondary master.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Richard Geoffrion <richard at rain.lewisville.tx.us>
> To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 7:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] kernel sees CDROM on /dev/hdc during bootup,
> but can't mount it..
>
>
> > 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??
> > >
> >
> >
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