summary thus far:


been running stock bare.i's since 9.0 came out. Got the guts to compile/upgrade myself (finaly). I now happily run 2.6.6 (after 3 attempts).
I always had scsi emulation for my cd-burner. I heard that it is no longer needed with my 2.6.6 kernel with the proper options comiled/mod' in.
I was trying to how to undo the steps I did to remove scsi-emulation. I accedently rm'ed /cdrom from the /dev directory.
I dont know what to do to get it back. Honestly I dont know how to undo scsi emulation. In KDE /dev/cdrom and /dev/scd0 are both unvalid block (scd0), and non existant (cdrom)

Is there something I can undo, or redo, or reinstall with pkgtool to fix this? Some one said I could reinstall the /dev with pkgtool, but I guess I dont realy know what was meant beyond that. upgradepkg? installpkg? if so what?

Any help to get back on the right track would be thankfull

Have you tried...

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0

This is mine after 2.6.6 I had to change it to hdc instead of cdrom


hope this helps

/dev/cdrom should just be a symbolic link to /dev/hdc or whatever the device is. check by doing

ls -al /dev/cd*

if you were using scsi emulation the link may point to /dev/sd0 instead of /dev/hdc or whatever. if it does, then

rm /dev/cdrom (or whatever your cdburner is called)

then, (or if you deleted it by accident), you should be able to just

ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom

i would do that as root, btw. then you can change permissions if it becomes neccessary, but it's better to be safe than sorry. as far as scsi emulation, the only place i have seen it is as an option passed to the kernel. check your /etc/lilo.conf for something like this:

append = "hdx=ide-scsi"

and remove it.

great, everything seems to be working, all but cdrdao. Supposedly, according to k3b it cdrdao needs scsi emulation to run. Will this just mean I wont have disk at once? Honeslty I dont even know what disk at once is for.... Ive been using k3b to burn cd's from time to time.
thanks for the help so far.