[Andre Eisenbach asked that I repost what problem I am
having with my CD-reader]
I have Debian 3.0 on a SONY VAIO PCG-SR27K.
I am unable to get the Sony CD reader (PCGA-CD51/A)
that attaches via the PCMCIA slot to work under
Debian.
Looking at the suggestions for related architectures
on www.linux-laptop.net, it is suggested that
/cdrom is improperly linked to /dev/hde and should
be linked to /dev/hdc. So I have done
rm /dev/cdrom
ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
My /etc/fstab has the following entry
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0
Upon boot, the following is put into syslog
: cardmgr[990]: executing: 'modprobe -r ide_cs'
: cardmgr[990]: exiting
: kernel: unloading PCMCIA Card Services
: kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.34
: kernel: kernel build: 2.4.18-686 unknown
: kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
: kernel: Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe:
: kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0c.0
: kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0a.0
: kernel: Ricoh RL5C475 rev 80 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:0c, mem 0x10000000
: kernel: host opts [0]: [isa irq] [io 3/6/1] [mem 3/6/1] [pci irq 9] [lat 168/176] [bus 2/5]
: kernel: ISA irqs (default) = 3,4,5,7,10,11,12,15 PCI status changes
: cardmgr[1055]: starting, version is 3.1.33
: cardmgr[1055]: watching 1 sockets
: cardmgr[1055]: Card Services release does not match
And then when I insert the card:
: kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
: cardmgr[990]: socket 0: Ninja ATA
: cardmgr[990]: executing: 'modprobe ide_cs'
: cardmgr[990]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
When I do 'mount /cdrom' (when the CD-reader is
plugged in and a CD is in the CD-reader) all I get is
mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
What else should I look at? Any suggestions gratefully
accepted.
Blair Kelly