CD-ROM drive stopped working after upgrade

Ted ted at trufflesdad.plus.com
Sat May 8 13:41:48 UTC 2004


On Saturday 08 May 2004 14:32, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 01:39:39PM +0100, Leon Stringer wrote:
> > I already have this entry (kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.327 ro
> > root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb nofb). I didn't put it there so I guess
> > Anaconda did. But my CD drive is still not working.
>
> If you do have "hdc=ide-scsi" in grub.conf, then your cdrom link is
> invalid. Either remove that option from grub, or change the link to point
> to scd0.
>
> The recomended way is to remove the option. The ide-scsi subsystem was
> broken in the first 2.6 kernels (and it was never that good to start
> with). I don't know its state in the new ones, but I guess the
> recomendation keeps.
>
No....
On my fedora partition I have to enter
 ide-scsi....No hdc or hdd mentioned
to get it to work...On this debian partition I do not have an entry for 
ide,scsi or hdx and it works ok....

-- 
Regards
  Ted Wager
    Using Libranet Linux





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