C. R. Johnson writes:
> Rob MacGregor wrote:
>
> >
> > I suspect you'll find that the cdrom drive support is compiled as a
> > module. When the module hasn't been used for some time it'll be
> > removed and devfs will unregister it. That's what happened to me with
> > my printer and tape drive. However reloading the modules solved this.
> >
> Reloading the modules does not work for me.
>
> Here are some things I noticed,
>
> - from /var/log/messages when devfsd unloaded:
>
> Sep 27 23:50:00 pigpen devfsd[19]: action_compat: error unlinking:
> "cdrom0"^INsuch file or directory
>
> It really looks like that, "^I and all".
>
> - unloading and reloading the cdrom driver changes nothing:
I don't know what's wrong. Perhaps it's fixed in the 2.4.14 already.
If not, wait for the 1.0 version of the new devfs core to be
released. I'd rather not chase bugs in the old code, since I want to
concentrate on getting the new code working.
Regards,
Richard....
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