Problem with Cendyne CD-RW drive in RH8

krystriana · 01-05-2003, 07:07 PM

Hi all,

I am looking for some help with my Cendyne Lightning IV CD-RW drive.

I just installed Red Hat 8, booting from the CD-RW. Now it seems that I cannot read a CD from the drive. When I issue: mount /mnt/cdrom with a cd in the drive, the drive spins up and then my whole session freezes. Trying to access the drive from KDE or Gnome ends up with the same results.

I have put the following in /etc/modules.conf

options ide-cd ignore=hdc
alias scd0 sr_mod
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd

I have also typed in the following commands:

cd / dev && rm cdrom && ln -s scd0 cdrom

cdrecord -scanbus does show the drive at 0,0,0

Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks!!

mcleodnine · 01-05-2003, 07:11 PM

what does the /etc/fstab have to say about your cdrom? If it's referring to /dev/cdrom, what does the /dev/cdrom link point to?

krystriana · 01-05-2003, 07:27 PM

Here's what's in /etc/fstab:

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

As to what links point to what, to be honest, I have not figured out exactly what links are yet. Perhaps this is my problem?

Thanks,

-Krys

krystriana · 01-08-2003, 06:08 PM

Okay, call me stupid but I figured out what a link was.

I entered the following:

cd /dev
rm cdrom
ln -s scd0 cdrom

From what I understand, that should get the link configured correctly. Problem is, the drive is still not working!!!

ARRRGGGGHHHHH!

-Krys

krystriana · 01-19-2003, 09:09 PM

I figured out on my own what my problem was. Seems that the IDE cable was not quite seated completely into my IDE controller. It was in firm enough for the CD-RW to be detected and even to boot from, but not to be mounted within Linux. Once I seated the cable firmly into the board, everything worked fine.

Hopefully if someone runs into the same problem in the future they will not have as much aggravation as I did.

-Krys