I had problems with activating DMA on my hard disk before (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165944), that issue is now solved by selecting the SATA driver in the kernel and putting 'sdax' in /etc/fstab. (which is odd because it IS a PATA driver). Now my hard disk functions properly but i'm not able to use my CDROM drive. It's not in /dev/. The strange thing is i CAN burn CD with nerolinux but i cannot mount it. It just recognizes my recorder. I would like to use my CDROM drive :-) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot linux 2.Put CD in tray 3.No CD-ROM in /dev/, Expected Results: A cdrom in /dev
Created attachment 117397 [details] Kernel config
Created attachment 117399 [details] My FSTAB
Created attachment 117401 [details] Listing from /dev
I think you miss the SCSI cdrom driver. Having this activated will give you your cdrom as /dev/sr0.
Created attachment 117402 [details] DMESG output
I tried to enable the SCSI CDROM-driver but still i got no device in /dev. (See attachment).
Created attachment 117404 [details] /dev listing with SCSI CDROM-driver enabled
Created attachment 117405 [details] Kernel config
Perhaps you should activate CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR or CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN. But your dmesg output just tells me you have a scsi CD-Device. Please attach a dmesg created with your new kernel with scsi-cd-support enabled.
Please also post "uname -v" output while booted into that new kernel.
This is what uname -v gives booted in my new kernel: alcoholica@Leviathan ~ $ uname -v #1 SMP Thu Apr 19 15:19:49 CEST 2007
Created attachment 117936 [details] DMESG from kernel with SCSI cd support + Probe for all LUN's + Vendor specific...
Created attachment 117938 [details] Newest kernel config
Your kernel config and dmesg output is not consistent! Are you sure you compiled that kernel and use it? Your kernel-config does have scsi disk switched of, and dmesg tells me you booted from sda. Also dmesg tells me kernel is from "Thu Apr 19 15:19:49 CEST 2007", but kernel config is from "Wed May 2 12:35:22 2007". You must also compile and install the new configured kernel!
Well i did compile the kernel and copied it to /boot. SCSI disk support is indeed switched off because i don't need it. I use the ata_piix driver under SATA drivers (see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165944). I'm no currently recompiling my kernel.
Ok my bad, i had a wrong entry in my grub.conf. Thats why the dates didn't match. Also the problem of my cd-rom drive is fixed now by enabling SCSI-cd-support + probe for all LUN's and the vendor specific stuff. Thanx for helping me out with this problem. It's a really strange notebook. It has a PATA drive but needs a SATA driver... Whatever, my CD-ROM works now. Thank you all
