Re: Udev thinks my cdrom is a char device?

[Horst von Brand]

Ryan Reich <ryanr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> I don't use my CD-ROM drive too often, and in fact I think the last time I
> did was 4 April, to make a backup; at the time I was running 2.6.4, patched
> with supermount and bootsplash.  Now I run 2.6.5, and I find the following
> odd situation in /dev:
> 
> # ls -l /dev/hd*

[...]

> crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root      22,   0 May 30 15:41 /dev/hdc

Filesystem corruption of some kind (or somebody remade the device
wrongly). Kernel has nothing to do with it.
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