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Newer page: version 3 Last edited on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:40:16 pm by JohnMcPherson Revert
Older page: version 1 Last edited on Wednesday, February 12, 2003 12:36:21 am by PerryLorier Revert
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 !!!No such device 
  
 The device you are trying to access doesn't exist, or the drivers for this device aren't loaded. This can occur if you refer to a file in /dev that has no driver loaded for it, or when loading a driver if no hardware exists. 
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+It is also quite common to see this under linux if you try to load a device driver and the driver can't find the corresponding hardware (for example, you've given the driver the wrong options).  
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+This message can also be given when a process has a file handle open for a removable device (such as a [USB] or [SCSI]) which is then removed... further use of the file handle should result in this error message.  
  
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