Hi

The Pioneer DVR-108 installed is not detected. See part of dmesg below

Probing IDE interface ide0...
ide0: Wait for ready failed before probe !
hdb: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8162B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdb: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20


But booting in Knoppix, the device is properly detected and mounted as per /etc/fstab
/dev/hda on /media/cdrom1

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sdb5 /Data reiserfs defaults 0 2
/dev/sdc1 /Archive reiserfs defaults 0 2
/dev/sda6 /home reiserfs defaults 0 2
/dev/sdb1 /home_bu reiserfs defaults 0 2
/dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdb /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sdd1 /media/25GB reiserfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sdd2 /media/15GBwin vfat defaults 0 0


Being a newbie, I find myself unable to resolve the problem. Any suggestions?

Thank you.

re : detection of Pioneer DVR-108
problem solved.

I do not know if all of these steps were necessary but finally the dvr is detected.

First, I had the bios detect again both the dvr-108 and the cdrom.

Second, I booted with the install cd (ubuntu amd64) in the dvr drawer instead of the cdrom drawer and choose the rescue mode.

Go through the rescue procudure which attempt to detect the hardware again and reboot.

That is it. Now, after rebooting, the Pioneer DVR-108 was properly detected and identified as specified in /etc/fstab.

If there was a better way, please let me know.

Well unfortunately the cure (see preceding post) was not permanent.

After rebooting, the drive could not be detected. The output of dmesg shows no trace of the device (/etc/hda).

If anybody can help, it woulld be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.