On 29-Jul-99 Bob Jiggins wrote:
> Date sent: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:20:17 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Jay Summet for [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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> Subject: RE: [expert] Block device not recognised - no CDROM!
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>> I'm not sure if this is going to help, but I also had problems with my
>> CD-Rom when updating from 5.3 to 6.0. The change is that in 6.0 the
>> kernel uses DMA by default for CD-Roms, while in 5.3 it did not.
>>
>> My problem was that my cd-rom was buggy and would crash the computer
>> whenever I tried to mount it.
>> I used the hdparm program to tell the kernel not to use DMA for the
>> cdrom,
>> something like: "hdparm -d0 /dev/hdb" and it fixed my problems. Not sure
>> if DMA vs nonDMA is your problem though, but that is one change from 5.3
>> to 6.0
>
> Jay
>
> thanks for the suggestion - have tried this but the problem seems
> to be that the kernel won't recognise the presence of /dev/hdc - the
> above command returns 'no such device' !!
>
> cheers for the input!
>
> Bob
ls -la /dev/hdc shows what?
Perhaps it's time for MAKEDEV?
--
Hampton
