CDROM on debian testingamd64sata, 2.6.12 kernel
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My new machine has an AMD64 cpu, along with an SATA hard drive. I managed to install debian testing, after struggling to get the installation CD to recognize the hard drive. My kernel is 2.6.12, which I needed for the amd64 and the sata drive.
But now it won't recognize the CD-ROM (it's a CDRW-DVD combo drive). dmesg recognizes the drive as an ide drive, which it is, but the installation seems to have tried to configure it as a scsi drive. In fact, there are nodev-hd* device files on the machine.
I have to re-configure the cd-rom to be what it is, an IDE drive, specifically,dev-hdc. At the moment, though, I can't seem to createdev-hdc. Or, should I go back to some sort of scsi emulation?
I tried, after finding information about it on the net, entering (fromdev) .-MAKEDEV -v hd
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which did something, but the device files are ondev-.static-dev-, and not only would this be awkward to use directly, but trying
mount -t iso9660dev-.static-dev-hdcmedia-cdrom0
hung, and was impossible to kill. Anything else, such as
# mount -t iso9660dev-cdrommedia-cdrom0 mount: block devicedev-cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock ondev-cdrom, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg tail or so
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which gives
# dmesg tail
cdrom: sr0: mrw address space DMA selected attempt to access beyond end of device sr0: rw=0, want=68, limit=4 isofsfillsuper: bread failed, dev=sr0, isoblknum=16, block=16
I tried this with not only the cd-rom I wanted to mount, but the installation disks as well, which obviously were good seeing as how I was able to install the system.
So, can someone point me to instructions on how to create workingdev-hd* device files? I had no luck with mknod, but maybe I was missing something.
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