On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Russell Rademacher wrote: : Hello. : : Figures... Unfortunably... I do not have those devs on my dev : directory. So.. it seems that I need to make those devices. Can you help on : that so I can get my CD-ROM working? Either a copy of those files or other : methods will help so I can get it moving.
Supposedly `/dev/MAKEDEV sbpcd' will create the sbpcd devices, but it doesn't work here, for some reason. I've never had good luck with /dev/MAKEDEV; I think it's cursed. If you want to use mknod, the major/minor numbers are as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ll /dev/sbpcd* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jun 2 1998 /dev/sbpcd -> sbpcd0 br--r----- 1 root cdrom 25, 0 May 12 1998 /dev/sbpcd0 br--r----- 1 root cdrom 25, 1 May 12 1998 /dev/sbpcd1 br--r----- 1 root cdrom 25, 2 May 12 1998 /dev/sbpcd2 br--r----- 1 root cdrom 25, 3 May 12 1998 /dev/sbpcd3 so the following commands will do it: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ cd /dev [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev $ sudo mknod -m 0440 sbpcd0 b 25 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev $ sudo mknod -m 0440 sbpcd1 b 25 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev $ sudo mknod -m 0440 sbpcd2 b 25 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev $ sudo mknod -m 0440 sbpcd3 b 25 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev $ sudo mknod -m 0440 sbpcd4 b 25 4 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev $ sudo ln -s sbpcd0 sbpcd HTH -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
