Re: Sarge netinst: CD-RW Sony CRX175A1
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 07:58:18PM +0100, Dani wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm netinstalling Debian Sarge from a minimal CD. I boot the CD and it
> fails to autodetect the CD drive, maybe because it's a CD-RW. It's Sony
> CRX175A1. The installation show me the following list of kernel modules:
> aztcd, cdu31a, cm206, gscd, isp16, mcd, mcdx, optcd, sbpcd, sjcd,
> sonycd535.
>
> Which may I choose? I suspect that none of the above because my drive is
> CD-RW.
>
I suspect none of the above. Those are really old drivers, used for
non-ATAPI drives. I have a Sony CRX175E2 drive, which is a
similar-enough model number that I strongly suspect it uses the same
driver. This drive is ATAPI-IDE and will read if you use the ide-cd
driver. For writing, the ide-scsi driver is required although this
driver will work for reading as well, which simplifies things. See the
CD-Writing-HOWTO for further information.
Try 'modprobe ide-scsi' and see if the drive is reported. If so, add
ide-scsi to /etc/modules.
Bob
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