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  • From: ner0x <ne00xide AT gmail.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] cdrom/dvd has disappeared.
  • Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 14:26:13 -0400

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 14:56:37 +0200, Andrew "ruskie" Levstik
<ruskie AT mages.ath.cx> wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:56:19 +0200
>
>
> Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls AT pareto.nl> wrote:
>
> > And yet more questions.
> >
> > I have been reading about the return to the /dev/ system, but I am not
> > sure I have got it.
> >
> > Here is the dmesg printout for the cdrom:
> >
> > ide_setup: hda=ide-scsi
> > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xbfa0-0xbfa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> > hda: QSI CD-RW/DVD-ROM SBW242U, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> >
> > When I have normally set this up, the /dev/hda would be turned into
> > /dev/sda and all would be hunky dory, however there is now neither
> > /dev/hda nor /dev/sda. Should I be using the /udev/ system?
> >
> > So at the moment I cannot mount the cdr/dvd drive, and was wondering if
> > this has happened to anyone else.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rohan
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>
> I take it you've switched to 2.6 kernel and you want to use udev.
>
> First things first... why do you need scsi??? haven't you heard you can
> burn cd's now direct via IDE???
>
> Second the /udev dir I don't know what is used for... all my devices are
> under /dev so yours should be there as well.
>
> If you have time come to irc and we can discuss this further.
> irc://irc.freenode.net/#sourcemage
>
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My DVD and CD roms pulled a dissappearing act quite a few times. Don't
know what brought them back, but they are just back automagically




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