On 12/04/2010 03:48 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
I think I found the reason for a long standing problem I've had with
the machine locking up.
I see no evidence of a cdrom link or device name in /dev.
dmesg seems to show that it is recognized on boot, but I'm not smart
enough to know what the lines from dmesg really mean:
Just showing the key lines here but the full dmesg output can be views
if so desired at this link: www.jtan.com/~reader/dmesg-101204.txt
dmesg|grep -2 hdc
[ 1.416847] hdb: UDMA/100 mode selected
[ 1.417357] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[ 2.089165] hdc: LITE-ON CD-ROM LTN-5291S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
You're still using the deprecated ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL disk drivers. You
should completely unselect that set of drivers and use the newer ones
in Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers instead.
Doing that will cause all of your /dev/hd* to be renamed /dev/sd*
including any cd/dvd drives. My /dev/cdrom is a symlink to /dev/sr0,
for example. The links are created automatically on the next reboot,
but you'll need to edit /etc/fstab to reflect the new drive names
before you reboot with the new kernel.
