Re: [LIH] hda to hdc

Make sure your hard disk is not /dev/hda

And then if you are using a modern distro that doesn’t have a static device tree, but are using udev ... take a look at this.

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.2/chapter07/symlinks.html

	suresh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vivek Sharma [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:12 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [LIH] hda to hdc
> 
> I have a binary code (for which I don't have a source code), which is
> using CDROM(supposedly /dev/hdc) as source of some files required for
> it's full functionality. But the new machine I procured has only one
> ide
> controller and the cdrom is loaded as /dev/hda instead of /dev/hdc. The
> program is not working. I tried creating a link named hdc to hda but
> that also didn't work out. Even copying didn't work out. I request if
> somebody can tell how can I load /dev/hda to /dev/hdc(required for
> cdrom
> only). I can't even compile a new kernel as kernel provided along has
> been hardened to work only for this code.
> 
> Thanks in anticipation.
> 
> Vivek
> 
> 
> 
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