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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: No cdrom device created
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:17:03
Message-Id: 87oc8xysit.fsf@newsguy.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: No cdrom device created by walt
1 walt <w41ter@×××××.com> writes:
2
3 [...]
4
5 >> dmesg|grep -2 hdc
6 >>
7 >> [ 1.416847] hdb: UDMA/100 mode selected
8 >> [ 1.417357] Probing IDE interface ide1...
9 >> [ 2.089165] hdc: LITE-ON CD-ROM LTN-5291S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
10 >
11 > You're still using the deprecated ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL disk drivers. You
12 > should completely unselect that set of drivers and use the newer ones
13 > in Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers instead.
14 >
15 > Doing that will cause all of your /dev/hd* to be renamed /dev/sd*
16 > including any cd/dvd drives. My /dev/cdrom is a symlink to /dev/sr0,
17 > for example. The links are created automatically on the next reboot,
18 > but you'll need to edit /etc/fstab to reflect the new drive names
19 > before you reboot with the new kernel.
20
21 What is the advantage of doing that? Are the other drivers better in
22 some way. Maybe more likely to recognize /dev/hdc, or maybe more
23 likely to give helpful output if that fails...?

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