Denis Pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using devfs with an up-to-date cooker and I'm experiencing a weird
> behaviour with my CD-ROM and CD-R (I'm burning CD's this afternoon). I'm
> losing my SCSI devices.
>
> Just after booting, everything is fine. I'm using ide-scsi and using
> cdrecord -scanbus I can see both my CD-ROM and CD-R. I master an ISO image
> and burn it. But 30 minutes later, I try to burn another image and I get:
>
> [root@maniwaki bus0]# cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J�rg
> Schilling
> cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
> cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are
> root.
>
> If I rmmod and modprobe back the sd_mod module I again have access to my
> CD-ROM and CD-R.
>
> Is this the normal behaviour?
Have you tracked it down to devfs? When booting with no devfs (remove
"devfs=mount" in your boot parameters) it acts as before?
Also, you can possibly find valuable information in the logs
(/var/log/syslog, /var/log/messages, etc).
--
Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
