On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 02:39:05PM +0000, Penguin Lover James squawked: > > > The source can't be read. > > > Maybe you don't have enough rights for this, or source doesn't contain > > > data > > > (e.g: no disc in drive). (/dev/dvd) > > > what does 'ls -l /dev/dvd' show? > > ls: cannot access /dev/dvd: No such file or directory > > > > -- permissions? > > -- is the device really /dev/dvd? > > In /dev/ I see these only: > cdrom > cdrom1 <there is an older cd also in the machine> > cdrw1 > > grepping dmeg I see: > hdb: CD-ROM TW 120D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > scsi 2:0:0:0: CD-ROM PLEXTOR DVDR PX-755A 1.04 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 > > Obviously, I do not have the SATA drive set up correctly. > I'm not sure where udev ends and what I have to do with > custom rules or other configs to set up this drive > under 2.6.20-gentoo-r8. Looking in the kernel everything > that looks like what I need for SATA is there, but, I'm > inexperienced with setting up SATA based drives and peripherals.... > > I do vaguely remember something about SATA/SCSI devices > changes, bur, really, I've never had this dvd reading or writing > working on this drive, since it was set up on the amd64 > last January. >
Well, I don't actually own a SATA device, so I can't help you on the kernel side (someone else on this list surely can). But one of the first thing is to read through your dmesg (or search through /sys) to see whether it is a udev problem or a kernel problem. (Under udev, if I am not mistaken, the default scripts should have the cdrom/cdrw/dvd device nodes be symlinks to the devices' "real names", so the question now is: where does those three cd devices you listed point to? Presumeably some of them points to your other CD that is appearing as hdb. Is any pointing to a SCSI disk?) Best to luck, W -- Pintsize: Data packets instead of pheromones! Sortir en Pantoufles: up 182 days, 15:09 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
