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Re: Going crazy... "No common CD-ROM drive was detected"



On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Daniele Gratteri wrote:
> The installer loads well from the initrd, however when it detects hardware
> looking for CD-ROM drives, it says that it can't find a CD-ROM unit! In fact
> in /dev there is no "cdrom" entry, even if the units show well during SCSI bus
> scan. I have a TEAC 12/10/32 SCSI burner and also connected a Plextor 12x SCSI
> reader and none of them is recognized.

For SCSI, the CD-ROM is /dev/sr0. Does that one exist?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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