On 05/05/2010 05:30 PM, D Wyatt wrote: > The mobo in my P4 pc died last week so my P4 became a Core2 Duo. > > The new mobo only has one PATA channel but the PC has 3 IDE drives. > I installed an ATA133 controller card (VIA vt6410) and connected > it to the IDE dvd-burner. The two IDE HD's are connected to the > single IDE channel on the mobo. > > This is a multi-boot pc with fc7, fc11 and WinXP, and I could > still boot into fc11 and XP after the hardware replacement. > > When I boot into XP, the DVD burner attached to the VIA > controller is fully functional. > > But when booted into fc11, the dvd drive can't be seen. The > pata_via driver seems to be loaded and entries in dmesg suggest > that the VIA controller is recognized. Device Manager in KDE > shows: > > PCI Bridge {82801 PCI Bridge - Intel} > RAID Controller {VT6410 ATA133 - VIA Technologies} > SCSI Host Adapter > SCSI Host Adapter > > lspci lists the controller: > > 04:01.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6410 ATA133 > RAID controller (rev 06) > > I've upgraded from fc11 to fc12 (32-bit) and the kernel is now > 2.6.32.11-99.fc11.686. The DVD burner remains invisible. > > Can anyone suggest a path to getting the DVD burner working in > Fedora with this controller card? > > > Regards and thanks in advance for any help you can offer The first thing I would check is to see if the DVD burner was detected as a new drive, and the /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd, etc are not being created. Udev remembers the attached DVD drives, and probably thinks that because the drive is on a new controller it is a new drive. Check the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules file, and see if it lists more then one CD/DVD device. If so, you can either edit the file, or delete it and let it be re-created on the next boot.
As a quick check to see if the DVD drive is being seen by the system, put a data disk in the drive and try, as root, to mount it. mkdir /mnt/cd mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cd Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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