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PostPosted: Tue May 24, 2011 7:14 pm    Post subject: No /dev/hdb despite dmesg confirmation. [SOLVED] Reply with quote

Hi,

I am trying to get an IDE CD/DVD burner, SONY DVD RW DRU-800A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive, to work. I can see it in the dmesg output, but /dev/hdb is nonexistant.

Here is the dmesg output:

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[    0.962471] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver
[    0.962563] jmicron 0000:03:00.0: IDE controller (0x197b:0x2368 rev 0x00)
[    0.962599] pci 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[    0.962638] jmicron 0000:03:00.0: 100% native mode on irq 16
[    0.962662]     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb400-0xb407
[    0.962688]     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb408-0xb40f
[    0.962708] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[    1.226453] hda: WDC WD2500JB-00GVC0, ATA DISK drive
[    1.685020] hdb: SONY DVD RW DRU-800A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[    1.685141] hda: host max PIO5 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
[    1.686312] hda: UDMA/100 mode selected
[    1.688441] hdb: host max PIO5 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
[    1.688693] hdb: UDMA/66 mode selected
[    1.689859] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[    2.208101] ide0 at 0xb000-0xb007,0xb102 on irq 16
[    2.209078] ide1 at 0xb200-0xb207,0xb302 on irq 16
[    2.210090] ide-gd driver 1.18
[    2.210995] hda: max request size: 512KiB
[    2.223223] hda: Host Protected Area detected.
[    2.223224]    current capacity is 488395055 sectors (250058 MB)
[    2.223225]    native  capacity is 488397168 sectors (250059 MB)
[    2.225835] hda: 488395055 sectors (250058 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63
[    2.228583] hda: cache flushes supported
[    2.235689]  hda: hda1 hda2 hda3


There are no further references to hdb in dmesg and my hda IDE hard drive is working.

Any help appreciated.


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PostPosted: Tue May 24, 2011 7:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is because all IDE devices are to be accessed via SCSI subsytem using PATA drivers, resulting devices are sd*. udev will not create hd* nodes.
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PostPosted: Tue May 24, 2011 7:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jaglover,

Thank you for your response. I have no sd* devices in /dev either. For what it's worth, my IDE hard drive is /dev/hda.
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PostPosted: Tue May 24, 2011 7:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, because your kernel is not configured properly. Go to http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ and rebuild your kernel, make sure the whole IDE branch is turned off, it is obsolete. Your HDD will be sda.
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PostPosted: Tue May 24, 2011 8:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jaglover,

Thank you, that solved both problems. I now have /dev/sr0.
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PostPosted: Tue May 24, 2011 8:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You are welcome!
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