On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Michael R. Jinks wrote:
> Our file server has an IDE CD-RW. Recently I replaced the stock Red Hat
> 7 kernel, using 2.2.18 with SCSI emulation turned on, with hopes of
> being able to use the CD-RW under cdrecord.
>
> Well, the new kernel appears to have broken CD-ROM support altogether:
>
> [root@fs2 /root]# mount /mnt/cdrom
>
> mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device
> (maybe `insmod driver'?)
>
> I _thought_ that I had turned on all the options that I need in order to
> enable the CD-ROM, I've done this a bunch of times before, looks to me
> like all the right modules are there. Pruned output of 'lsmod':
>
> ide-probe 6608 0 (autoclean)
> ide-cd 24192 0
> ide-disk 6224 0
> ide-scsi 7424 0
> sg 15648 0 (unused)
> cdrom 27168 0 [ide-cd]
> ide-mod 36160 0 (autoclean) [ide-probe ide-cd ide-disk
> ide-scsi]
> isofs 16864 0 (autoclean) (unused)
>
> So what might be missing from that list? The CD that's in it has not
> moved from the tray since the last runtime, during which it was mounted
> and accessible.
just for fun, try
# cdrecord -scanbus
and see what comes up.
rday
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Robert P. J. Day
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