hdc vanished

[me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)]

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.

Matt

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