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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 07:04:27
Message-Id: 200905160904.19329.dirk.heinrichs@online.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sr0 has disappeared: big mystery by Dirk Heinrichs
1 Am Samstag, 16. Mai 2009 08:56:38 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs:
2 > Am Samstag, 16. Mai 2009 01:11:53 schrieb Philip Webb:
3 > > 090515 Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
4 > > > Am Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 11:00:59 schrieb Philip Webb:
5 > > >> For the 1st time in 2 months, I went to write a CD & discovered
6 > > >> that /dev/sr0 is not being created nor symlink /dev/cdrom ;
7 > > >> I looked at 'dmesg': no mention of 'sr' or 'cd' being found.
8 > > >> I tested the drive: SystemRescue 1.1.0 (kernel 2.6.25.16) starts
9 > > >> correctly & mounts /dev/sr0 on /mnt/cdrom ; its 'dmesg' says :
10 > > >> sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/16x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda
11 > > >> tray \ Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
12 > > >
13 > > > Please post your kernel config.
14 > >
15 > > The relevant lines are
16 >
17 > No, the relevant lines are missing. Please post it completely, best
18 > together with output from "lspci -v" when booted into the LiveCD.
19 >
20 > > > What BIOS says is irrelevant.
21 > >
22 > > It does mention 'PATA' & 'ATAPI', which mb relevant.
23 >
24 > For Windows, maybe. Not for Linux.
25 >
26 > Oh, just realised that you wanted to _write_ a CD (was too late yesterday
27 > to
28 >
29 > read more carefully ;) ). Then, the relevant line is of course:
30 > > # CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG is not set
31
32 However, since you don't even have the sr0 device, there may still be a
33 different problem, so it won't hurt if you provide the requested information
34 anyway, I guess.
35
36 Bye...
37
38 Dirk

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