On Freitag, 7. November 2003 15:28, Fabien Fivaz wrote: > Oups, crazy. It seems that your drive is * NOT * a Matshita > DVD-ROM SR-8176. But is recognized as one... Could you do a > > # dmesg > > And look at beginning of what it returns, what is said about your > driver (you will also see a line for your hard disk) ?
dmesg tells me: Uniform Multi-Platform-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ... hdc: MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8176, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ... > Is it * really * a Matshita... ? You maybe know the model ? Oops, I would have to find this in one of the boxes: we recently moved into the new house, so there are hundreds of boxes containing all the stuff you seldomly use. ;-) > I don't know if it is possible to tell the kernel that your CD is > actualy a Writer... OK anyway thanks a lot for helping so far, perhaps the rest of the missing pieces wild come at its place as well. Karl-Heinz -- Karl-Heinz Zimmer, Senior Software Engineer, Klar�lvdalens Datakonsult AB <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken, 1880 - 1956 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
