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From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sr0 has disappeared: big mystery
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 06:56:49
Message-Id: 200905160856.43668.dirk.heinrichs@online.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sr0 has disappeared: big mystery by Philip Webb
1 Am Samstag, 16. Mai 2009 01:11:53 schrieb Philip Webb:
2 > 090515 Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
3 > > Am Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 11:00:59 schrieb Philip Webb:
4 > >> For the 1st time in 2 months, I went to write a CD & discovered
5 > >> that /dev/sr0 is not being created nor symlink /dev/cdrom ;
6 > >> I looked at 'dmesg': no mention of 'sr' or 'cd' being found.
7 > >> I tested the drive: SystemRescue 1.1.0 (kernel 2.6.25.16) starts
8 > >> correctly & mounts /dev/sr0 on /mnt/cdrom ; its 'dmesg' says :
9 > >> sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/16x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
10 > >> \ Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
11 > >
12 > > Please post your kernel config.
13 >
14 > The relevant lines are
15
16 No, the relevant lines are missing. Please post it completely, best together
17 with output from "lspci -v" when booted into the LiveCD.
18
19 > > What BIOS says is irrelevant.
20 >
21 > It does mention 'PATA' & 'ATAPI', which mb relevant.
22
23 For Windows, maybe. Not for Linux.
24
25 Oh, just realised that you wanted to _write_ a CD (was too late yesterday to
26 read more carefully ;) ). Then, the relevant line is of course:
27
28 > # CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG is not set
29
30 Bye...
31
32 Dirk

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