CD & DVD Drives Vanish

gibbylinks · 01-16-2004, 01:32 PM

I have just downloaded and installed the 2.6.1 Kernel from kernel.org. Everything appeared to go smoothley and my system boots up OK, but I have lost my CD-Rom & DVD drives, the directories also disappeared from /mnt

Can anyone give me any pointers or help as to what to do to fix it.

Thanks

wiraone · 01-17-2004, 02:04 AM

In a terminal, do the following
$ dmesg | grep CD

Does it find your CD & CD/RW there? If yes, then the driver for the drives are loaded

Now check the entries in your /etc/fstab .. Is it available there? If not, most probably kudzu made the drives disappeared .. run kudzu manually and see if this help you. Otherwise, remove /etc/sysconfig/hwconf and rerun kudzu ..

gibbylinks · 01-27-2004, 08:01 AM

I did the grep thing and my drives are there -
/dev/hda
/dev/hdc

But still can't access them, I think i've messed up the fstab lines for them. Is there somewhere I can go for reference stuff on the fstab table ? Ideally i'd like some web site showing the different settings and where they go so I can print it off.

Thanks

gibbylinks · 01-29-2004, 03:57 AM

OK so I goofed, I did the dmesg again and examined it more closely (should have done that first time).. and my drives get redefined as ide-scsi and then "retagged" as sg0 & sg1.

But when I try "mount -t iso9660 /dev/sg0 /mnt/cd-rom" I get "not a block device" error message.

I have created the directories "cd-rom" & "dvd" in /mnt, could it have something to do with permissions ?

Pleeeaseee help (yes I'm grovelling, sad ain't it)

acid_kewpie · 01-29-2004, 06:26 AM

as you're on 2.6.1 i'd say remove all reference to ide-scsi emulation and just use ide directly. there is no real advantage to it anymore.