On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Jeremy wrote: > Hello all! > > I'm having a problem with accessing my CD drive, and I was hoping to possibly > get a little insight into the situation. Basically the situation is that I > have an IDE CD-RW drive, but I can't get much to find it. Normally it would > be /dev/hdc, but I have the ide-scsi option (append="hdc=ide-scsi") in my > lilo.conf file, so supposedly it is now associated with another device file. > I've pretty much read (and been told) that it's supposed to be /dev/scd0, but > when I try to mount it, I get: > > mount: /dev/scd0: unknown device > > Yet, I DO have device files scd0-16 listed in /dev. If I try to mount it at > it's old hdc spot, I get this: > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, > or too many mounted file systems > (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use > ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?) > > Also, if I try to burn a CD on this drive with readcd or cdrecord, it gives > me this error: > > Copy from file '/backup/disk1.raw' to SCSI (0,0,0) disk > end: 1 > readcd: Input/output error. write_g0: scsi sendcmd: no error > CDB: 0A 00 00 00 01 00 > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) > Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 90 82 00 00 > Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 > Sense Code: 0x90 Qual 0x82 (vendor unique sense code 0x90) [No matching > qualifier] Fru 0x0 > Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) > cmd finished after 0.008s timeout 40s > readcd: Input/output error. Cannot write destination disk > > Now, all of this would tell me that for whatever reason, something's not > finding my CD-RW drive, yet if I run readcd with the correct parameters, it > will read a CD to a file just fine. > > I have a feeling that my major problem lies somewhere in my kernel > configuration. I roll my own, and I'm currently running a custom 2.4.7 with > Sid. (yeah, I know... that's just asking for trouble) I have ide-scsi and > generic scsi both in my kernel, but they're included as modules. Should > these be built into the kernel itself?
[snip] I think perhaps you have the same problem as described in this posting: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200108/msg01241.html Try the solution proposal in the posting, and see if something changes. I don't know about the modules thingy. Best regards Johnny :o)

