I just installed Mandrake 8.1 (which comes with 2.4.8) on a P3 box, and
am having trouble getting my ATAPI cdrom drive working with devfs. I'd
never heard of devfs before -- elegant idea.
The symptom is that the cd player doesn't work. Digging around, I found
that there is a /dev/cdrom link to /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, but the latter
has major number 11, so it's a SCSI cdrom device. It should be 22 of
course, hdc. At least that's what I'd expect!
I tried upgrading to kernel 2.4.13 which did not help.
I discovered the append directive " hdc=ide-scsi" in lilo.conf (what the
hell is that doing in there?!), but taking it out (and running lilo)
didn't change anything on reboot.
The kernel is booting with devfs=mount, and I'm frankly afraid to take it
off. devfsd is running (if that's at all relevant).
Any ideas? I'm frankly stumped!
Gary
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