Can't find my cd...

douglas_slac · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Aug 2003 Posts: 89

Ok, over two weeks in on installing gentoo, and I still don't have close
to what I would have with -any- other distro. I am about to give up on
this dsitro, with 2 weeks lost in install.

But I can't find my cd-rw. I was able to get a /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 with
the first setup. But it is a cd-writer, and I was to able to burn disks. I put
the added: "hdc=ide-scsi" as stated in the install guide in grub.conf. Now
there is no /dev/cdroms/*, no /dev/hdc. and no /dev/scsi/*.

Where did my cd-rw drive go? How do I get to it? Don't make me think
gentoo was a -big- mistake.

douglas_slac · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Aug 2003 Posts: 89

I needed to put "ids-scsi" in the /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4
file. Then the cd has shown up in /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd,
and soft links have shown up in /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdroms/cdrom0.

Was there a note to put this module in the autoload file? If so, then I missed
it. Plus what modules do need to be put in this file, and which don't?
All of the other loaded modules are not in this file.

asubedi · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 105

There should have been note on kernel parameter "hdc=ide-scsi" in the Gentoo Install Guide (at least there was when I installed it). The entries in autoload file depend upon what modules you have. (You may have compiled your modules into your kernel.) If everything is working, you are fine :-)