On 08/11/2010 07:37 PM, James wrote: > Baseline- I'm lazy and not very smart: > > So my console output upon booting berated me > about continuing to use sysfs. OK. So I removed > it and built a new kernel (AMD 64). > > Everything works but the DVD. Ok, so > I need a udev rule to fix it? Googling > has produced lots of antiquated info; > nothing useful.
OK, so what drove you to this conclusion? Why are you sure it's a udev problem? Or are you not sure? Because right down here.... > Can somebody point me to a document, preferable > one with an easy example to follow to get > a variety of different DVD (reader writers) > working again, Sata, ata, atapi, ide...... > as this is now broken on all of my 2.6.34-r1 > gentoo (systems) kernels I have...... ...you mention "all your 2.6.34" kernels. How is your kernel configured for SATA and ATA? And right below that in the kernel's Device configuration section is SCSI device. Do you have SCSI disk support and SCSI CDROM support? > I found this: > http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html#example-cdrom > > but I do not have 'udevinfo' or 'udevtest' on the system. > > I did find this: > /usr/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools/files/xen-tools-3.4.0-udevinfo.patch > > Seems like it out to be trivial to write a udev rule for > these drives: > > Probing IDE interface ide0... > hda: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > or > ata3.00: ATAPI:scsi 2:0:0:0: CD-ROM PLEXTOR DVDR PX-755A 1.04 > PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 PLEXTOR DVDR PX-755A, 1.04, max UDMA/66 Are these regular IDE drives? It looks to me like the NEC hda is but is the Plextor SATA? Yes, I can google PX-755A but someone else should have done that. ;-)
