On Saturday 08 Nov 2003 3:53 pm, Piero Piutti wrote: > Alle 15:20, sabato 8 novembre 2003, Greg Meyer ha scritto: > > I can hardly believe you missed this with all the controversy this > > caused. They are not on the CD's (oversight) but are available on any > > Mandrake mirror in the Main branch. They are NOT in contrib. > > Thanks for clearing my doubt. Indeed I've been away form this list for a > while and re-joined only recently, that's why I missed all the fuss! My > fault. > > Anyway, I have upgraded to the 2.4.22-21mdk kernel and as soon as I > rebooted I've noticed a trouble with my dvd drive which worked fine until > yesterday (/dev/scd1 - it's actually hdd, scsi emulated): I cannot access > to any cd/dvd I put into the drive. > > When I type: > # cd /mnt/cdrom2 > it spins up and seems to read the contents but when I type > # ls > the discs are empty! > > I'm puzzled. Even 'cos my other drive (hdc, /dev/scd0) works just fine. > Could it be a just occurred hardware fault or something to do with the new > kernel?
I had the same issue. With that kernel some makes of DVD drive do not work with scsi emulation. Set it back to IDE and it should be OK derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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