Re: /dev/cdrom disapeared

[<tim algernonsystems com>]

Have you been tinkering with ide-scsi? You seem to have lost an IDE drive
and gained a SCSI unit. Enabling ide-scsi (adding 'append "hdc=ide-scsi"'
to your /etc/lilo.conf (or grub or whatever) file would cause this.

-Tim

> Out of the blue, /dev/cdrom has disappeared, miraculously, /dev/cdwriter
> has appeared but doesn't appear to be of much use. I seem to remember
> cdrom being linked to /dev/hdc but this tells me nothing when I fdisk
> it. I also have a message in my log file that I don't recall being there
> before:-
>
>
> Sep 29 14:18:31 localhost kernel: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1,
> channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> Sep 29 14:18:31 localhost kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer
> cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
> Sep 29 14:18:31 localhost kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
>
> any help appreciated.
>
>
> K.
>
>
>
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