Debian Etch (with 2.4.27.2) doesn't recognise my CDdrive

[rangalo]

Hi List,

I hava a Dell Inspiron 6000, With NEC CD/DVD RW combo drive.

First, I tried to install Etch with default kernel (2.6.15) it refused to recognise my cddrive. After that I tried install24 (with kernel image 2.4.27.2-686 ), the installation process went smooth. I forgot to set root paassword wich I set using my knoppix live cd.

But after installation, when I try to mount cddrive, I get error message meaning mounting falied and in dmesg says falied to recognise hdc ide-scsi but there is also one message describing the correct type of my cddrive. And the entry in fstab is created automatically during installaion.

How is this possible that the installer can recognise the drive with the same kernel but the installed version cannot ?

And what should I do to get my cddrive recognised. I dont have internet connection, so I planned to install everything with cds and now I am stuck.

Knoppix recognises the cddrive as ATAPI and /dev/hdc.

It is a known problem that the driver for atapi is not precompiled in default 2.6.15 kernel which comes with Etch, but I have read posts where people have succeeded with 2.4.? kernel.


thanks,
Hardik

[antidrugue]

What does

lspci

tell you?

(Post the result.)