Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Doesn't work. Submount is unstable for amd64 and prints errors to dmesg when I try to use it.
Ouch. You're sure? On SuSE? Reported that? I've never seen that
mentioned on the amd64 list.
Under SuSE it worked but SuSE always changes things in their packages.
Funnily enough the drive can write the CD. I also have never had any problems like this one under SuSE or Windows. I suppose it is my kernel as I have compiled it myself.
No, not even that works. I also cannot boot with the disks. cat /dev/dvdram
gives "cat: /dev/dvdram: Input/output error".
Ooops, you're stuffed. Ok, either the drive can't read the media, or the
kernel doesn't communicate one little bit (pardon the pun) with the
drive. If the former, same for any OS. If the latter, sorry the kernel's
bad.
There are a lot of options under ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support that I don't understand. Which of them are necessary? Do I also need to include SCSI CDROM support?
Ok, I am a beginner in some respects. I am only slowly learning what all these file under /dev and /proc mean. By the way: There was somewhere a webpage that describes what all these toplevel directories contain. Unfortunatly I have lost it. Does anyone know where to find it?k3b says the disk is empty. mount givesExpected. Not one bit from the media gets to the CPU. It's a bit like
saying "my dialup failed. oh and btw, my netscape doesn't show any
web page any more either". :)
Volker
PS You sure /dev/dvdram is the correct device name?
Yes, lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 15 05:54 /dev/dvdram -> hdc. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann
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