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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: no cdrom (IDE)
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 01:13:32
Message-Id: iu5v58$j41$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: no cdrom (IDE) by walt
1 On 06/25/2011 05:03 PM, walt wrote:
2 > On 06/25/2011 03:32 PM, Alexey Mishustin wrote:
3 >> Hi.
4 >>
5 >> After updating udev the links /dev/cdrom, /dev/dvd etc disappeared. There
6 >> are four /dev/sgX but there is no /dev/srX at all. No hdX, all sdX are
7 >> hard drives.
8 >
9 > That's a good thing. The disk drivers that use/need/create /dev/hd* are obsolete.
10 >
11 >> So, I can't mount any cd or dvd.
12 >>
13 >> My drive is IDE (Pioneer).
14 >
15 > Mine also, not a problem.
16 >
17 >>
18 >> # dmesg | grep sr
19 >> #
20 >
21 > That seems to be the problem.
22
23 <sigh> I beg pardon for my senility. I was reminded while reading a different group
24 to run lsmod.
25
26 The salient lines from lsmod:
27
28 cdrom 24970 1 sr_mod
29
30 The kernel module sr_mod is selected in the kernel config menu at
31 "Device Drivers::SCSI device support::SCSI CDROM support"

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[gentoo-user] Re: no cdrom (IDE) Alexey Mishustin <shumkar@×××××××.ru>