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