Hello, I'm experiencing a really strange issue there, with a laptop under a fresh sid system (installed from scratch two days ago).
The laptop is an ASUS W3V, the CDROM device is a CDRW/DVD+R writer combo. First of all, the CDROM device works great: I can boot on the Sarge netinst CDROM, moreover it's well seen in the BIOS. Everything looks ok for the hardware: I can open it and when I put a CD media inside, the device starts cycling it as expected. Note that I used to use it for burning CDRWs and DVDs and for reading CDROM/DVDROM media. It used to work perfcectly. Since I had a problem with my hard disk (the partition table got corrupted during a crash), I had to reinstall a new system. I used the Sarge 3.1 netinst CDROM (so I booted on it), then dist-upgraded to Sid. By now, everything looks like I don't have any CDROM device: - The first thing I find really weird is that dmesg does not show any information about my CDROM device. There is simply nothing about it. - under udev, I just don't have /dev/hdc, neither the symlink /dev/cdrom - under hotplug, I have /dev/hdc but cannot mount any device: "not a valid block device". Moreover, eject does not work neither: "cannot open /dev/hdc". - cdrecord -scanbus shows nothing. All this is true with Debian kernels 2.6.12 and 2.6.14. I also tested a home-made 2.6.13 kernel and experienced exactly the same. I do have listed ide-detect, ide-cd and cdrom in my /etc/modules. Now the very strange part: If I boot on a 2.4.27 Debian kernel, the CDROM is seen, dmesg speaks about it... I'm investigating for more than 2 days now, and I would really welcome any idea that could help me getting back the device. Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to this list. Regards. -- Alexis Sukrieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
