Gene Poole wrote: > This box was running very well on Red Hat Linux 9 when I did an upgrade to > Fedora Core 3. The upgrade went perfectly until I started using the box > for productive work and discovered that the cdrom is missing from > /mnt/cdrom (where it was originally) and there is no reference to it in the > /dev directory. I'm not screaming yet because I found it in the side pane > of the root Nautilus GUI file manager window under KDE. I don't follow that last sentence. Found *what*, exactly? > I cannot find an example of the MAKEDEV command so I can get /mnt/cdrom > back linked off of /dev/hdd. Does anyone know how to get the 'real' cdrom > back? Firstly, was this an "upgrade in place" upgrade or an "install over and restore data as necessary" upgrade? If you wiped the root partition, you'll find that /media/cdrom has taken the place of /mnt/cdrom. Otherwise, it sounds like an udev problem. On FC3, udev should be automatically creating /dev/hdd and the /dev/cdrom symlink to /dev/hdd. I take it that it's a normal ATAPI CD drive jumpered as slave and sitting off your secondary IDE channel. Can you do a ls -l /dev | grep hdd Does anything show up? If not, then can you take a look at /var/log/dmesg : around halfway through that file there will be a whole lot of data about your IDE connection, probably starting with a line looking like this: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 Does that mention your CD drive? James. -- James Wilkinson | TCP/IP evolved primarily by actually being _used_, Exeter Devon UK | rather than being handed down from on high by a vendor E-mail address: james | or a brontosaurus or any other saurian silliness. @westexe.demon.co.uk | -- The megahal program, trained on my quote file.
