Somethings up with my cd drives

**Dillinger** · 07-27-2003

I dunno what happened, but all of a sudden I don't have a /dev/cdrom directory anymore. I try cdrecord -scanbus and it gives me errors and I try to play a CD and cdplayer is saying the device doesn't exist. What happened?

**Dolda2000** · 07-28-2003

What IDE position does your CD-ROM have?

**Dillinger** · 07-28-2003

My burner is the secondary master and my cdrom drive is the secondary slave...

**Dolda2000** · 07-28-2003

Check what is in /proc/ide/hdc/driver, /proc/ide/hdc/model, /proc/ide/hdd/driver and /proc/ide/hdd/model.

**Dillinger** · 07-28-2003

/proc/ide/hdc/driver: ide-cdrom version 4.59
/proc/ide/hdc/model: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100
/proc/ide/hdd/driver: ide-cdrom version 4.59
/proc/ide/hdd/model: CREATIVE CD5230E

**Dolda2000** · 07-28-2003

They have switched to being pure IDE devices instead of going through the SCSI emulation layer. Have you done anything to your modules.conf or your kernel command line?
You can access them through /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd, but you won't be able to burn anything with them without using SCSI emulation.

**Dillinger** · 07-28-2003

Maybe I did something with all the Gentoo stuff I've been doing. What can I do to correct this? (besides SCSI emulation or whatever)

Heres my modules.conf:

Code:

probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
alias eth0 3c59x
above snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
probeall usb-interface usb-uhci

**Dolda2000** · 07-28-2003

Try to add this to your modules.conf, the run the commands below, then reboot:

Code:

alias block-major-11 sr_mod
add above sr_mod ide-scsi
options ide-cd ignore=hdc,hdd

Code:

rm -f /dev/cdrom*
ln -s scd0 /dev/cdrom
ln -s scd1 /dev/cdrom1

Btw., are your /mnt/cdrom* directories still left in place?

**Dillinger** · 07-28-2003

Yes the /mnt/cdrom* directorys are still there. And I did what you said and sadly I think it just made things worse

When booting up I think I caught it saying hdc device not there, hdd device not there. Then it did a bunch of modprobe stuff or something like that and they all just failed. I still get the same errors mentioned in my first post as well...

**Dolda2000** · 07-28-2003

OK, check again what is in /proc/ide/hd?/driver.

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