DVD Drive Problem
 

I have a minor annoyance that I haven't been able to solve.

My DVD drive is not detected unless there is a disk in the drive at boot.

My entry in fstab:
/dev/sr0 (where the drive gets linked to when it is detected) does not get added to /dev

Anyone know what I could do to fix this.

Thanks in advance for any help.

hm.. strange
maybe you should keep one disk inside of it all the time
would it boot from boot cd? what are you trying to achieve?

I shouldn't have to keep a disk in the drive just to have it recognized. But I will have to do that unless I find a solution.

The other strange part is. That when the drive is not recognized, I can insert a disk and it sounds as if the drive is reading it but the drive is still not listed /dev/sr0 or in lsscsi.

Change the fstab entry like this /dev/cdrom/ /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 00
Hope it will solve you're problem

That didn't help. Thanks for trying though.

I have edited udev, recompiled the kernel turning sscsi support on in the kernel rather than as mod, and I'm out of ideas.

I added a line to the udev rules but that was useless because udev doesn't execute the rules unless the drive was already detected.

Ok. I have determined that the DVD drive is being seen regardless of it being loaded or not.

Output:
But is not added to the device table or linked to sr0

Does removing /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules (followed by a reboot) help at all? That file should be automatically regenerated upon a reboot...if it still doesn't work then something is probably happening before udev gets a hold of it...

Sorry for not updating sooner. I have come to the conclusion that it is a hardware problem. Ubuntu 10.04, openSUSE, Arch, and Gentoo all experience the same problem as Slackware. So I will deal with having to keep a disc in the drive.