Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sr0 has disappeared: big mystery

[Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@online.de>]

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Am Samstag, 16. Mai 2009 08:56:38 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs:
> Am Samstag, 16. Mai 2009 01:11:53 schrieb Philip Webb:
> > 090515 Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > > Am Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 11:00:59 schrieb Philip Webb:
> > >> For the 1st time in 2 months, I went to write a CD & discovered
> > >> that  /dev/sr0  is not being created nor symlink  /dev/cdrom ;
> > >> I looked at 'dmesg': no mention of 'sr' or 'cd' being found.
> > >> I tested the drive: SystemRescue 1.1.0 (kernel 2.6.25.16) starts
> > >> correctly & mounts  /dev/sr0  on  /mnt/cdrom ; its 'dmesg' says :
> > >>   sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/16x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda
> > >> tray \ Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
> > >
> > > Please post your kernel config.
> >
> > The relevant lines are
>
> No, the relevant lines are missing. Please post it completely, best
> together with output from "lspci -v" when booted into the LiveCD.
>
> > > What BIOS says is irrelevant.
> >
> > It does mention 'PATA' & 'ATAPI', which mb relevant.
>
> For Windows, maybe. Not for Linux.
>
> Oh, just realised that you wanted to _write_ a CD (was too late yesterday
> to
>
> read more carefully ;) ). Then, the relevant line is of course:
> > # CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG is not set

However, since you don't even have the sr0 device, there may still be a 
different problem, so it won't hurt if you provide the requested information 
anyway, I guess.

Bye...

	Dirk

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