On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 19:25 +0100, beb wrote:
Peter Hunter wrote:
Right...Could you do a 'ls -l /dev/cdrecorder' and 'ls -l /dev/dvdrecorder' Hopefully that might help. Actually, could you do the same for /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd too? I have a sneaky suspicion that /dev/cdrecorder etc. will just be a symlink to them.
beb
peter@linux:~> ls -l /dev/cdrecorder lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2005-07-11 17:36 /dev/cdrecorder -> hdd peter@linux:~> ls -l /dev/dvdrecorder lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2005-07-11 17:35 /dev/dvdrecorder -> hdc peter@linux:~> ls -l /dev/hdd brw------- 1 peter disk 22, 64 2005-03-19 19:36 /dev/hdd peter@linux:~> ls -l /dev/hdc brw------- 1 peter disk 22, 0 2005-03-19 19:36 /dev/hdc peter@linux:~>
This all looks double duch to me. Although I'm sure that one day I'll understand it!
Does anyone know enough about SuSE to explain how it handles stuff like this. A bit of googling suggests that it's quite different from how the distros I know (something to do with 'sysfs'?). Unless Peter has been messing around with chown and chmod (which I guess is unlikely) those entries for /dev/hdc and hdd are...strange.
(I've read the post saying the problem has gone, this is just curiosity)
beb
Thank's beb. I can assure you that i haven't touched chown or chmod (I'll look them up in a mo), as yet I've no idea what they are. I'll keep all of these emails though. I'll be upgrading my computer soon so I'll be re-installing the OS from scratch (all part of the learning curve. I could just swap hard drives, but that's no fun!), so I'll be doing all this again. I'll list those files that you have had me do and compare them to the old ones, just out of interest. I'll keep you informed.
Peter
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