I cannot access my cdrom drives and finally traced it to ide-cd failing on startup. I also get the same error if I do a 'modprobe ide-cd'. grub config is correct, the drives are recognised in dmesg output, correct CONFIG parameters are set in kernel generation. /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd fail to be created by udev. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. modprobe ide-cd Actual Results: benq geoffd # modprobe ide-cd FATAL: Error inserting ide_cd (/lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r6/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.ko): Invalid argument benq geoffd # Expected Results: Loaded ide-cd without error Dmesg output is: Kernel command line: udev root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/hda5 init=/linuxrc ide0=dma hdc=cdrom hdd=cdrom ramdisk_size=8192 ide_setup: hdc=cdrom ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb408-0xb40f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hdc: HL-DT-ST GCE-8520B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide_setup: hdd=cdrom ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb408-0xb40f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hdd: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3540A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide_cd: `' invalid for parameter `ignore' ignore: string parameter expected Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.4.3-r4, 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.19-r1, 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/grass60/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apache2 avi bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr cups doc dvd emacs encode foomaticdb fortran gd gif glut ipv6 ithreads java jikes jpeg kde mime mmx mmx2 motif mp3 mpeg mysql mysqli nptl nvidia opengl pdflib php png postgres ppds python quicktime readline samba scanner sdl speex sse sse2 ssl tclk tiff truetype unicode usb v4l x86 xml xml2 xv userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Please attach /etc/modules.conf
Created attachment 64975 [details] modules.conf as requested
Created attachment 64976 [details] Also autoloaded moudles
You have this line in /etc/modules.d/aliases : options ide-cd ignore hdd the correct format is "ignore=hdd"
Thanks, I have been looking for this for nearly 2 weeks. I upgraded from 2.4 to 2.6 and have had this problem since then. All the scsi stuff in /etc/modules.d/alias was there from 2.4. Deleted the option ide-cd line and both my cdroms now work.
