Hi,
About this matter I received several answers, I tested some of them, but
I stopped searching a solution since it was due to a "GEAR CD writing
software" which now I decided NOT to use since, as Tom Blinn writes:
So, you might bug GEAR to support their product on our newest release,
there is almost certainly no way to get their old kernel module to
work with V5.0 and later.
Who reads this mailing lists already knows that now I can write CD &
copy them using "cdrecord", so I will NOT use GEAR anymore.
Anyway the suggestions how to crate old "legacy" devices have been:
1) Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo_at_albourne.com>
mknod using the major & minor device numbers of the v5.0 devices
ls -ls /dev/disk/cdrom1a
0 crw------- 1 root system 19,115 Jan 20 11:02 /dev/disk/cdrom0a
mknod gd0a b 19 115
2) "Freesmeyer, Mary" <Mary.Freesmeyer_at_LendersService.com>
ln /dev/disk/cdrom1a gd0a
They both are OK infact I can mount CDs on them
mount -r /dev/gd0a /cdrom
None of them allows GEAR to work, but that is probably another matter.
3) "Shiv Agarwal" <shiv.agarwal_at_compaq.com>
use dsfmgr -o
I have been NOT able to create /dev/gd0a using this method.
Probably I should study more the dsfmgr man page. Since I'm no more
interested in running GEAR, (and I'm quite lazy) I stop here my
work on /dev/gd0a
Thank to Tom, Arrigo, Mary and Shiv,
Emanuele
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Received on Thu Jan 27 2000 - 09:58:48 NZDT