[KLUG Members] disappearing hdc

[Mike Williams]

>
> From:
> Mike Williams <knightperson at zuzax.com>
>
>
> I've been playing with Gentoo recently, and I've discovered something 
> very wrong with it.  Each time I boot, the special files /dev/hdc and 
> /dev/hdd, which correspond to my optical drives, vanish.  The kernel 
> detects them at bootup, but by the time the system is booted they 
> aren't there.  hdc1-30 and hdd1-30 are there, but the 3-letter files 
> aren't.  I can recreate them with mknod, and everything works, but 
> they disappear again at the next boot.  I'm using udev, which I 
> suspect is the culprit here, but I have no idea how to fix it.  
> Anybody ever seen this?
>
After way too much digging, I figured it out myself.  The IDE-CD kernel 
module wasn't loading at bootup.  For my next trick, I'll have to figure 
out why the kernel module auto-loader isn't!