On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 01:11:05AM -0600, Jesse Kline wrote: > Quoting Brad Camroux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hello again, > > > > I purchased a DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive at VFXWeb during Saturday's > > installfest. However, I've not been very successful in attempts to get > > it working. > > Can you give more details? Does the system see it when it boots up (try running > dmesg to find out)? Can you mount cd-roms with it? If not, what errors are you > getting.
Apparently the system does see the drive at boot time. Here's a snip from my 'dmesg' output: <SNIP> hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=2434/255/63 hdb: 66055248 sectors (33820 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=4111/255/63 hdc: ATAPI 52X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 </SNIP> However, I am not able to mount CD-ROMs on this drive. When I try, I get: gandalf:/etc# mount /cdrom mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device > > My CD-ROM drive has been working nicely without any SCSI-emulation, > > though I understand this is required in order to use a CD-RW and/or > > DVD-ROM. > > You usually need ide-scsi emulation for cd-rw drives with pre-2.6 kernels. It's > simply a matter of editing the /etc/lilo.conf file to pass a parameter to the > kernel when you boot (/dev/hdx=ide-scsi I think). For the record, I'm running the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. I've not got my kernel-upgrading boots on to bring in the 2.6 kernel. Can I do that using apt-get? > > Has anyone got a CD-RW working in Debian Woody, and if so, could you > > send me details? I don't want to have to reinstall woody! > > Judging from my experience at the installfest, I don't think a reinstall would > do you any good as the Debian installer doesn't seem to have very much hardware > detection ;-) Yes... I do recall your adventures with the Deb. Installer. Did you manage to have some success with SuSE? Did you get that RAID stuff figured out? > Good luck, > > Jesse > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Thanks, -- +--------------------------+-------------------------------+ |Brad Camroux | === http://www.debian.org === | |Student | ============================= | |Geophysics & Applied Math | Proud admin and user of Debian| |University of Calgary | since 2003... because Red Hat | |Calgary, AB, Canada | just didn't cut it | +--------------------------+-------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
