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Old 05-31-2004, 04:18 PM   #1
don_dimo
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Cdrom Driver


Hi!

How do I find out the correct driver that needs to be inserted for my cdrom? I upgraded to FC2 and now it wont eject .. I am guessing new kernel did not compile driver even though cdrom is correctly detected. Strange?

Cheers!
 
Old 05-31-2004, 05:07 PM   #2
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Try running

eject -v

from the command line and see what output it says to help you a bit more.
 
Old 05-31-2004, 06:34 PM   #3
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eject -v

eject: using default device `cdrom'
eject: device name is `cdrom'
eject: expanded name is `/dev/cdrom'
eject: `/dev/cdrom' is a link to `/dev/hdc'
eject: `/dev/hdc' is not mounted
eject: `/dev/hdc' is not a mount point
eject: `/dev/hdc' is a multipartition device
eject: unable to open `/dev/hdc'

I dont understand that, /dev/hdc has always been the mountpoint for my cdrom. I changed the link cdrom to scd0 but that didnt work either. I know for sure there has to be a driver inserted for the cdrom to work properly, I think it was ide-scsi, but whenever I try modprobe ide-scsi -> FATAL: Module ide_scsi not found.

Do you know how to compile that module in the kernel??
 
Old 05-31-2004, 06:56 PM   #4
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Yeah you need compile scsci emulation and scsci cdrom support or there abouts, it's pretty obvious once you look through the module options, for the moment you could try looking at the output of dmesg to see if/what letters you cdrom is getting assigned
 
Old 05-31-2004, 07:10 PM   #5
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Great! Do you know what do I need to do to get it compiled. ... I hope I dont have to recompile the whole kernel .. but if you can give me some directions or a site with that info that would be great. Thank you!

This is the output from dmesg:

hdc: HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8240B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
 
  


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