Hi guys! Well I have a problem here. I just installed Gentoo Linux 1.4 and everything went fine until I rebooted my system. The problem is that when the system boots up I see that it detects my cdrw drive (/dev/hdd) and my normal cdrom drive (/dev/hdb). But when I login and try to mount my cdrw the system says that there's no such device as /dev/hdd. There's /dev/cdrom, /dev/hdb, /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 but they all point to my normal cdrom and the prob is that that cdrom is broken and since I'm doing a GRP install I really need my cdrw drive. So I'm asking you guys if you can please tell me how can I create a device that would point to my cdrw. Thanks very much in advance!

well if it's a cdrw then are you not already using ide-scsi emulation? in which case hdd shouldn't exist at all, as it will be seen to the system as a scsi device, and as you are using devfs then hdd will not exist in the first place.

Hmmm... Ok, so then how can I find my drive now?

with scsi emulation, the pointer is /dev/scd0

you went through the gentoo installlation didn't you.... it's upto you what you did with your devices... i don't understand why you're not aware of this?