<quote who="Antony Clarke"> > I've had the cdrw as spec'ed in dmesg below working before however for > some reason it's just not happening for me now. I have included the > symbolic links I made as well as /etc/fstab, commands I have run, grub > and dmesg snippets. Anyone help. If I get in /var/log/messages that > Can't locate module block-major-11 does that mean that I don't have > sr_mod set as a loadable module when the kernel was compiled .config > appended to end of message. Shit, I'm probably going around in circles > here, but please help a newbie. Sorry about the size as well. >
You have SCSI sr module compiled in, if that's the .config from your currently running kernel: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m As root, use lsmod to show current modules. If 'sr_mod' isn't there, try doing 'modprobe sr_mod' and see if you can load the module manually. You may need 'alias block-major-11 sr_mod' in your /etc/modules.conf file to trigger the load. I don't need it with my kernel though, so check what you get when you modprobe the module by hand. Your kernel boot options look fine. I'd change the /dev/cdrom1 link to point /dev/scd0 instead of /dev/hdd, though - always use the scsi device node, not the IDE (hdd) one when using a drive through ide-scsi emulation. > ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) > end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 64 > isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:40, iso_blknum=16, block=32 Unless this is some artifact of an incorrect configuration, I'd think this indicates a bad CD, or a bad drive. Hope that helps lead you somewhere useful. Cheers, J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing." -Tom Dreesen -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
