Hi gang - I could sure use some advice right about now on my Slackware system. I am not sure how it happened, but I seem to have lost some soft links and special device names under /dev related to my cdrom drive, which is a Sound Blaster Panasonic proprietary device. The devices I should have are: /dev/sbpcd0, /dev/sbpcd1, /dev/sbpcd2, /dev/sbpcd3, and either another device or a soft link, I am not sure which, called /dev/sbpcd I was trying to create a softlink between /dev/sbpcd and /dev/cdrom and somehow I ended up losing /dev/cdrom, /dev/sbpcd, and /dev/sbpcd0 entirely! Before this happened, I was able to mount /dev/sbpcd onto /cdrom but now of course I cannot do that - missing 'special device' sbpcd. I was also earlier able to run an audio cd player which required /dev/cdrom, but of course that is also kaput. What I tried was to recompile and reinstall my kernel, hoping rthat so;mewhere amongst those arcane scripts there might be something that created the necessary device references, but it did not change the picture. Anybody know how I can recover those missing special devices, /dev/sbpcd0 and /dev/sbpcd, so that I can once again create my soft link to /dev/cdrom? Thanks - this really makes me feel stupid, when something which has been working fine gets broken because I looked at it cross eyed! Chuck. My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh (I C Q = 67363342) "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.
