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From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: no cdrom (IDE)
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 17:40:02 -0700
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On 06/25/2011 05:03 PM, walt wrote:
> On 06/25/2011 03:32 PM, Alexey Mishustin wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> After updating udev the links /dev/cdrom, /dev/dvd etc disappeared. There
>> are four /dev/sgX but there is no /dev/srX at all. No hdX, all sdX are
>> hard drives.
> 
> That's a good thing.  The disk drivers that use/need/create /dev/hd* are obsolete.
> 
>> So, I can't mount any cd or dvd.
>>
>> My drive is IDE (Pioneer).
> 
> Mine also, not a problem.
> 
>>
>> # dmesg | grep sr
>> #
> 
> That seems to be the problem.

<sigh> I beg pardon for my senility.  I was reminded while reading a different group
to run lsmod.

The salient lines from lsmod:

cdrom                  24970  1 sr_mod

The kernel module sr_mod is selected in the kernel config menu at
"Device Drivers::SCSI device support::SCSI CDROM support"