On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 08:15:06AM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote: > well, about a week ago we had a lovely thunderstorm > that knocked out our power and after recovering from > that my DVD burner seemed to go AWOL (that is the > device nodes just vanished) > > checked syslog and no errors there, nothing on udev > documentation seemed to help, and STFW didn't help > either. i'd just reinstall but i need to get a backup > off first (which i was, ironically going to burn to > disk that evening), and i was planning on > repartitioning on the next install. > > thoughts on recovering the nodes? (BIOS recognizes the > DVD drive, the old CD drive is dead but has been that > way and BIOS doesn't recognize the DVD drive as a > valid boot drive, possible the bootstrap site maybe?)
Well, the BIOS recognises the drive, udev isn't giving you nodes. Is the kernel seeing it? Check dmesg. What do you have under /dev? When you say the device node, do you mean /dev/sd? or do you mean /dev/dvd or /dev/cdrom? What about /dev/disk/by-id? If dmesg gives you the device name but there is no node in /dev, just use mknod and make it manually (as a work-around to allow the backup). As for a permanent fix, good luck. I hate udev. Hopefully, someone here will tell you how to fix it. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
