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Frustrated
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 Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 1:06 am Post subject: I can't use my CD-ROM drive |
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I have a Dell Inspiron 6000. Here is the useful output of dmesg:
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pktcdvd: v0.2.0a 2004-07-14 Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de) and petero2@telia.com
hdc: PHILIPS CD-RW/DVD-ROM CDD5263, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
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Which all looks correct but I just have nothing I can mount. I would expect a /dev/cdrom entry or something but no such thing. There is no /dev/hdc either. The only thing remotely close is /dev/pktcdvd/control.
How should I go about figuring this one out? |
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mikejr
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 2:17 am Post subject: |
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| Post your /etc/fstab. It could be that or something as simple as permissions... |
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Frustrated
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 3:22 am Post subject: |
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| mikejr wrote: | | Post your /etc/fstab. It could be that or something as simple as permissions... |
The only info remotely useful is this line:
| Code: | /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
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But of course that device doesn't even exist. |
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mikejr
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 3:55 am Post subject: |
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Frustrated,
make sure your symlinks for the device are in place. For instance, mine are:
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jul 16 22:02 cdrom0 -> ../hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jul 16 22:02 cdrom1 -> ../hdd
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That would be the output of 'ls -al /dev/cdroms/'
Yours should look like just the top line (concerning hdc)
That takes care of that, but you say you have no /dev/hdc? Did you enable:
CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y
CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX=y
CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=y
in your kernel? |
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Headrush
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 4:15 am Post subject: |
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We need a lot more info:
What kernel are you running?
Are you running udev or devfs?
What is the output of
Do you need/want packet writing abilities? |
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dsd
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:14 am Post subject: |
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sounds like you havent built ide-cd into the kernel
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Frustrated
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| Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 3:11 am Post subject: |
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| mikejr wrote: |
That takes care of that, but you say you have no /dev/hdc? Did you enable:
CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y
CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX=y
CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=y
in your kernel? |
Yup, that's what I have. If I had hdc there I'd make a symlink. I get the feeling a lot of programs are expecting /dev/cdrom so a symlink would do it but I don't have anything to link it to. |
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Frustrated
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| Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 3:14 am Post subject: |
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| dsd wrote: | | sounds like you havent built ide-cd into the kernel |
ooo, good call:
| Code: | CONFIG_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=m
CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y |
I don't see why CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD is compiled as a module and not right into the kernel. Do you think that's it?
Edit: Right on! Did modprobe ide-cd and I'm right where I expected. If I change that to "y" and recompile, do you think it'll all work from boot (or am I looking at the wrong option here)?
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Frustrated
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| Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 3:18 am Post subject: |
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| Headrush wrote: | We need a lot more info:
What kernel are you running? |
2.6.11 - as compiled by myself
| Quote: | | Are you running udev or devfs? |
udev sounds right.
| Quote: | | What is the output of |
| Code: | acpid | default
bootmisc | boot
checkfs | boot
checkroot | boot
clock | boot
coldplug | default
consolefont | boot
crypto-loop |
cupsd |
dante-sockd |
domainname | default
esound |
famd |
gpm |
hdparm |
hostname | boot
hotplug | default
keymaps | boot
lisa |
local | default nonetwork
localmount | boot
mit-krb5kadmind |
mit-krb5kdc |
modules | boot
net.eth0 | default
net.eth1 | default
net.lo | boot
netmount | default
nscd |
ntp-client | default
ntpd |
numlock |
pcmcia | default
portmap |
pwcheck |
reslisa |
rmnologin | boot
rsyncd |
samba |
saslauthd |
serial | boot
slapd |
slurpd |
splash | default
sshd | default
syndaemon |
syslog-ng | default
urandom | boot
vixie-cron | default
xdm | default
xinetd | default
xprint |
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| Quote: | | Do you need/want packet writing abilities? |
I would like writing capabilities, but reading is the only real essential. |
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juniper
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| Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 4:56 am Post subject: |
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hello,
have you tried
in /usr/src/linux/include/linux/libata change #undef ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI to #define ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI
and recompiling the kernel? that is what i needed to do on my dell i6000.
you should check out
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-306856.html?sid=e86141659f573a61f54c47e9bde372bb
that forum has all sort of dell 6000 goodies (it is specifically devoted to this laptop).
hope that helps.
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dsd
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| Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:08 am Post subject: |
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| Frustrated wrote: | | Edit: Right on! Did modprobe ide-cd and I'm right where I expected. If I change that to "y" and recompile, do you think it'll all work from boot (or am I looking at the wrong option here)? |
that right, make it Y and it'll just work.
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mikegpitt
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| Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Also make sure your user is in the 'cdrom' group. |
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Frustrated
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:36 am Post subject: |
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| mikegpitt wrote: | | Also make sure your user is in the 'cdrom' group. |
Gentoo has a lot of different groups that users should be added to that other distros don't (usb, audio, games, etc.)... Why? |
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fiendishGhoul
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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I've recently had that problem, I'm using the kernel version 2.6.15-r7 and in the libata.h file I don't find the
#undef ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI, any idea? |
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