CDRW and DVDRW won't show up?

Rustylinux · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 154

My CDROM drive and DVD drive do not show up ? how would I go about getting them to show up both in gnome and gentoo in general. I'm currently running a genkernel which pretty well has almost everything in it

so I don't think its a driver issue.

This is my fstab print out and I know i have to add something in but I forgot the syntax

/dev/sdb1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdb2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sdb3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

Tehkno · n00b Joined: 07 Jun 2005 Posts: 31 Location: UK

You need to add entries to fstab, or you can use hal and dbus to auto mount them.

suicidal_orange_II · Apprentice Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 299

your missing something along the lines of

Rustylinux · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 154

mentaldemise · Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 2:20 am Post subject:

Do you mean they won't show up to automount, or don't show up in /dev listing? I just switched motherboards and don't have them showing up in dmesg. If I find a fix I'll let you know.

Rustylinux · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 154

mentaldemise · Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 2:57 am Post subject:

Eh, that's no bad. The kernel refuses to assign my dvd-rw..

You need a package like:

* sys-fs/autorun [ Masked ]
Latest version available: 3.15
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 456 kB
Homepage: http://autorun.sourceforge.net/
Description: auto cdrom mounter for the lazy user
License: GPL-2

My problem is, as stated, it will not assign my drive a /dev entry.

ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xF000 irq 14
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7f09 84:4003 85:7c68 86:3e01 87:4003 88:207f
ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 490232639 sectors: LBA48
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi0 : ata_piix
Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y250M0 Rev: YAR5
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xF008 irq 15
ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:0b00 82:0000 83:0000 84:0000 85:0000 86:0000 87:0000 88:0407
ata2: dev 0 ATAPI, max UDMA/33
ata2: dev 1 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7f61 84:4003 85:3468 86:3e41 87:4003 88:203f
ata2: dev 1 ATA-6, max UDMA/100, 488397168 sectors: LBA48
ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/33
ata2: dev 1 configured for UDMA/33
scsi1 : ata_piix
Vendor: Memorex Model: 16X-DDL-IN Rev: 1.A0
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD2500JB-55G Rev: 08.0
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 490232639 512-byte hdwr sectors (250999 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 490232639 512-byte hdwr sectors (250999 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
SCSI device sdb: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sdb: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
sdb: sdb1
sd 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi disk sdb

mentaldemise · Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:15 am Post subject:

Okay, it's a bit odd. For some reason this motherboard decides to use SCSI instead of ATAPI. So I was missing the SCSI cdrom support.

Dominique_71 · Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:00 pm Post subject:

Same problem here after an "emerge --deep --update --newuse mc"

It was also the same problem with /dev/lp and I solved it by adding lp in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. So the question is: What is the module for those devices?

EDIT: for ATAPI drives, it is ide-cd. So just add it in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 and they will be loaded at boot time. "modprobe ide-cd" otherwise.
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