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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:06 pm    Post subject: Unable to load CD-ROM Reply with quote

Hello,

I installed Gentoo few weeks ago but suddenly I need to use a CD-ROM but its not working.

This is part my of /etc/fstab, but I didnt edit it since install (so this is I supose the default value):
Code:
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0      /mnt/cdrom      auto            noauto,ro               0 0


When I insert CD, nothing happens. There is no suchdevice as /dev/cdrom or /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 or any other that could be the CD-ROM. My CD-ROM is plugged via ATA (harddisks via SATA). Actually I have only ATA CD-ROM driver compiled in kernel (I also tried the SATA - just in case), but after booting gentoo there is no masseage about CD-ROM in dmesg. The CD-ROM is TEAC Combo (DVD/CD-RW) Drive.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 10:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hi mathio,

what do you get, when you type in
Code:
ls -lisa /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
?

do you have
Quote:
Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support
enabled?


cheers!

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello,

I believe I have the same problem, so rather than starting new thread I'm posting in this one, I hope you don't mind.
My CDROM was working fine, but few days ago when I wanted to read some CDs I got this message:
Quote:
jan@laura /usr/src/linux $ mount /mnt/cdrom/
mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified

My /etc/fstab file is the same so I suppose this is not the cause of the problem:
Quote:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,unhide,noauto,exec 0 0


Further investigation was carried out as follows:
Quote:

$/usr/src/linux $ uname -a
Linux laura 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Tue Oct 3 10:17:01 JST 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GNU/Linux
$/usr/src/linux $ pwd
$/usr/src/linux
$/usr/src/linux $ cat .config | grep CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
$/usr/src/linux $ ls -lisa /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
ls: /dev/cdroms/cdrom0: No such file or directory
$/usr/src/linux $ ls -lisa /dev/cdrom
ls: /dev/cdrom: No such file or directory


Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support is enabled, thus it's strange there are no cdrom devices in /dev neither in dmesg output.
Matio, can you pls post what is it like on your machine ?
Any ideas appreciated ;)

Jan
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mrknowitall wrote:
hi mathio,

what do you get, when you type in
Code:
ls -lisa /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
?

Code:
# ls -lisa /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
ls: /dev/cdroms/cdrom0: No such file or directory

As I said in first post, there are no devices i /dev that could be the CD-ROM :(

mrknowitall wrote:
do you have
Quote:
Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support
enabled?

I do but it doesnt seem to help.

Is there any command like lspci that would list my hardware including CD-ROM?
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

instead of /dev/cdroms/cdrom0

try /dev/hdc
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
# ls -l /dev/hd*
ls: /dev/hd*: No such file or directory


Doesnt work either :(
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello guys!

In case of SATA drives, Mathio migth have his CD-ROM on /dev/sdc ...
Mathio, what's the version of kernel you're using ?

On my machine, neither /dev/hdc nor /dev/sdc are available.
Did we forgot to compile something in?

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My version of a kernel:
Code:
$ uname -r
2.6.17-gentoo-r8


My SATA and ATA devices available:
Code:
$ ls /dev/sd*
/dev/sda  /dev/sda1  /dev/sda2  /dev/sda3  /dev/sda4  /dev/sdb  /dev/sdb1
$ ls -l /dev/hd*
ls: /dev/hd*: No such file or directory

(/dev/sda and /dev/sdb are my hard disks)
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello,

I tried to boot linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r7 kernel. With this kernel CDROM works like a charm.
Code:

$ ls -lisa /dev/cdrom
4832 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-10-31 07:48 /dev/cdrom -> hda
$ ls -lisa /dev/cdrw
4833 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-10-31 07:48 /dev/cdrw -> hda


I'll check if there are any differences in the config of my 2.6.16-r7 kernel and the 2.6.17-r8 kernel and I'll post the results later.

Cheers,
Jan
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello,

I compared configuration of my older kernel with working CD-ROM and I found that I ommit
flags:
CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC (generic/default IDE chipset support) and
BLK_DEV_GENERIC (Generic PCI IDE Chipset Support) in
"Device Drivers > ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support" config menu.

I'm running kernel linux-2.6.18-gentoo-r2 at the moment with CD-ROM (actually DVD burner) working flawlessly.

Jan

p.s. if this solves Mathio's problem, pls add tag [SOLVED] to the subject of this thread
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