On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 02:43:05PM +0100, Adam Stiles wrote: > On Friday 02 June 2006 11:31, Craig Hagerman wrote: > > For some reason I just lost my cdrom / dvd drive (same). I did an > > update and upgrade, burned a CD in k3b and all was working well. I > > came home to find that the computer had crashed hard - no mouse, no > > keyboard, couldn't log in remotely, nothing worked. I restarted and > > everything is OK except that I no longer have the CD drive. By that I > > mean there is no longer and entry for /dev/hdc, no symlinks pointing > > to /dev/dvd and /dev/cdrom as there used to be. I suspect that maybe > > this is a problem with udev not adding the dvd drive, but I have > > absolutely no idea how to troubleshoot this issue. Has anyone seen > > anything like this before? Any suggestions on how I can get /dev/hdc > > back and working again? > > > > Craig > > Try booting up with a rescue disc and see if the CD drive shows up. I use > SLAX {based on Slackware} as my preferred diags/rescue tool just because > it's quicker to download than Debian-based Knoppix. > > If Slax/Knoppix fail to see the CD drive, then it's probably faulty and might > even have been what caused the crash in the first place. or maybe check it out in the bios - see if it sees it there.
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