[gentoo-user] Re: No cdrom device created

2010-12-08 Thread walt
On 12/07/2010 05:15 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: waltw41...@gmail.com writes: [...] dmesg|grep -2 hdc [1.416847] hdb: UDMA/100 mode selected [1.417357] Probing IDE interface ide1... [2.089165] hdc: LITE-ON CD-ROM LTN-5291S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive You're still using the deprecated

[gentoo-user] Re: No cdrom device created

2010-12-07 Thread Harry Putnam
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: [...] dmesg|grep -2 hdc [1.416847] hdb: UDMA/100 mode selected [1.417357] Probing IDE interface ide1... [2.089165] hdc: LITE-ON CD-ROM LTN-5291S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive You're still using the deprecated ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL disk drivers. You should

[gentoo-user] Re: No cdrom device created

2010-12-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: hdparm -z /dev/hdc I got some kind of weird output from that: root # hdparm -z /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: re-reading partition table BLKRRPART failed: Invalid argument fdisk has no better luck: sudo fdisk /dev/hdc Password: Unable to open

[gentoo-user] Re: No cdrom device created

2010-12-05 Thread walt
On 12/04/2010 03:48 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I think I found the reason for a long standing problem I've had with the machine locking up. I see no evidence of a cdrom link or device name in /dev. dmesg seems to show that it is recognized on boot, but I'm not smart enough to know what the lines