[SOLVED] No optical drives detected in Slackware 13.37

netcrawl · 11-12-2011, 06:02 PM

I upgraded to Slack 13.37 a couple of weeks back and just discovered my DVD drive is not detected, as root or user. No /dev/hd* of any sort. Mount command gets 'mount: special device /dev/hda does not exist'.
The drive works fine, just not being picked up in Slack.

I suspect I missed something during the upgrade from 13.1 to 13.37, but I'm stumped. Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Regards...

adamk75 · 11-12-2011, 06:04 PM

CD/DVD devices are usually /dev/sr*

Adam

wildwizard · 11-12-2011, 06:08 PM

This is the ATA driver upgrade, all IDE devices will now appear as SCSI devices

Disks /dev/sd*
Optical /dev/sr*

allend · 11-12-2011, 06:08 PM

Check the output of 'lsscsi'.

Cedrik · 11-12-2011, 06:08 PM

Or use udev's symlinks like /dev/cdrom, /dev/dvd, /dev/cdrw...

netcrawl · 11-12-2011, 06:16 PM

No /dev/sr* either.
lsscsi shows sda & sdb, my hard drives.

allend · 11-12-2011, 06:30 PM

Does 'dmesg | grep ATAPI' show anything?

netcrawl · 11-12-2011, 06:36 PM

No, nothing in dmesg regarding ATAPI. Good call. I am running kernel 3.0.4, possibly missed something while configuring that, as well.

allend · 11-12-2011, 06:40 PM

Quote:

I am running kernel 3.0.4, possibly missed something while configuring that, as well.

Seems like a good bet!

netcrawl · 11-12-2011, 06:42 PM

I'll re-install a stock kernel and see how it goes. Thanks to everyone, I may be back lol.

Added:
Stock kernel works fine, it was the PEBKAC virus of course. It's been a long day.