DVD-ROM Not Showing UP

discreteenmity · 05-05-2005, 08:34 PM

I recently installed Slackware 10.1 and I'm a total newbie. My CD-RW shows up, but my DVD-RW does not. During installation It had scanned both drives to locate an installation cd. Also when linux boots I can see the drive name. The drive is a MSI MS-8408A. Can I make linux see it? Also When I do a dmesg grep | -i cd my cd-rom drive doesn't show up just my usb device name. Both of my drives are atapi. Thanks for the help

Matir · 05-05-2005, 09:06 PM

Well, what do you define as "showing up"? Where is it supposed to "show up"? It seems to be showing up in your dmesg, so it is recognized by the kernel.

discreteenmity · 05-05-2005, 09:32 PM

I can't find it in the mnt directory or dev directory. And when using gnome it is not found in the computer as well as any programs

Matir · 05-05-2005, 09:37 PM

Oh, I imagine it's in the dev directory somewhere. dmesg | grep -i dvd shows what?

discreteenmity · 05-05-2005, 09:43 PM

The failed "Send DVD Structure" packet command was:

Matir · 05-05-2005, 09:48 PM

Nothing else at all? The Kernel buffer does have a limit on total size, so if it's been a while since the system was booted, they could have overflowed the buffer.

discreteenmity · 05-05-2005, 10:09 PM

After I rebooted i did the command again, but nothing happened it went right to the command prompt. I noticed that when the system boots both drives were hdd are they supposed to be the same? I opened up the cd recording tool that comes with gnome...it allows me to select the dvd-rw but i can't burn to it. When I put it in the other drive it works fine. Thanks for the replies

Matir · 05-05-2005, 10:12 PM

Hrrm... Try the following:

Code:

dmesg | grep -i ide
dmesg | grep -i rom
dmesg | grep -i hd

and see if they return anything.

discreteenmity · 05-05-2005, 11:05 PM

root@discreteenmity:~# dmesg | grep -i ide
root@discreteenmity:~# dmesg | grep -i rom
root@discreteenmity:~# dmesg | grep -i hd
hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: command error: error=0x51
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 64
hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: command error: error=0x51
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 64
root@discreteenmity:~#

do you know that this means...maybe my hd is bad