[vox-tech] No node for CDROM

Richard Harke rharke at earthlink.net
Mon Oct 1 14:36:34 PDT 2007


I added ide_cd to /etc/modules and re-booted.
That seems to have fixed it.

Richard

On Sun September 30 2007 22:18, Richard Harke wrote:
> 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
>
> Richard
>
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