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Old 10-20-2003, 08:44 PM   #1
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how do i play dvds?


hey all. im using a 2.4.22 kernel, and had selected scsi emulation for the cd-dvd drive for burning cd's.
i remember having my drive picked up as a "combo cd-dvd r/w" drive in the 2.4.18 kernel which was built at installation time, but when i load into the newer 2.4.22 kernel, i do not see it. and i cannot play dvd's on this anymore - only if i go back into the older kernel.

what should i be doing to resolve this? i hope someone can advice.

tia.
 
Old 10-20-2003, 09:33 PM   #2
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If I understand correctly you were not using SCSI emulation with 2.4.18 and you are now using it with 2.4.22.

This should cause your DVD drive to appear as a SCSI device instead of an IDE. Whatever device or symlink you are using to access the drive is probably pointing to the wrong place. You probably need to be using a device file like /dev/scd0.

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Old 10-20-2003, 09:40 PM   #3
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right, thats what i thought too. so i tried mounting /dev/scdxx but all of them give me:

'mount: /dev/scdxx is not a valid block device"
 
Old 10-20-2003, 09:56 PM   #4
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Then I've got a few more questions.

Are your kernels from Debian binary packages or did you compile them yourself ? If you compiled them is ide-scsi configured as a module or built in ?

Could you post the outputs of the following commands :

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

lsmod | egrep 'ide|scsi'

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Old 10-20-2003, 10:02 PM   #5
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compiled them myself.

/proc/scsi/scsi says no attached devices,

and there is no module loaded with ide|Scsi thing.

whats the name of the module i should be loading?

really appreciate ur help.
 
Old 10-20-2003, 10:03 PM   #6
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im thinking that i musta compled it with them being modules.
 
Old 10-20-2003, 10:19 PM   #7
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Well if SCSI emulation is compiled as a module and that module is not loaded then the drive should appear as an ide device like /dev/hdc. Is that what /dev/cdrom points to ?

I'm thinking that the most likely explanation is that you left something out of the kernel that was needed for DVD's when you compiled it. My suggestion would be to install a stock Debian 2.4.22 kernel and see if that works. If that solves the problem you can then compare the config file (which Debian puts in /boot when you install a kernel image) with the config file you were using to see where you went wrong.

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Old 10-20-2003, 10:25 PM   #8
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/dev/cdrom -> hdc

yup.

thanks again. will look into this later now. thought there might be a quick-fix to this.

appreciate it.
 
  


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