hdc vanished

[dan moylan]

matthew gillen wrote:
> dan moylan wrote:
>> my laptop internal dvd/cdrom has always shown up in dmesg as:
>>   hdc: UJDA740 DVD/CDRW, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
>>   hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
>>
>> in /dev, cdrecorder was linked to hdc and /media/cdrecorder
>> had the good stuff when the CDROM was mounted.  for some
>> inexplicable reason, hdc has disappeared from /dev, and as
>> a consequence, i am unable to mount a disk in that drive
>> (as one might expect).
>>
>> in the old days, i could fumble with MAKEDEV to rescue the
>> missing device, but MAKEDEV no longer exists.  i browsed
>> through yast2 and found nothing appropriate.  any
>> suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> i'm running suse10 on a panasonic cf-50.

> mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0

> Probably suse does some tricks with hal/udev/hotplug to
> dynamically create the device file when appropriate, and
> for whatever reason that service/daemon isn't running.

> The mknod command should get you the device file you
> need.  It won't last across a reboot if suse is
> udev-based, but there are other tricks if that's the case.

thanks, worked like a charm, except that when i looked in
dev, cdrecorder was linked to fd0!  fixed that and the disk
mounted just fine.

you're right, it did not survive a reboot.  i can continue
to use the mknod command, and suppose i could put it in
/etc/init.d/boot.local, but i would guess that there must
be a better way.

wonder what went wrong in the first place -- used to work.

anyway, thanks,
dan

j. daniel moylan
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