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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.

Note the following quote from open(2) in the Errors section:
;ENODEV: pathname refers to a device special file and no corresponding device exists. (This is a Linux kernel bug - in this situation [ENXIO] must be returned.)

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).

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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Last edited on Thursday, August 21, 2003 12:09:00 pm by JohnMcPherson

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