Re: Sarge netinst: CD-RW Sony CRX175A1
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 01:21:06PM +0100, Dani wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:10:26 -0800, "Bob Nielsen nielsen-at-oz.net
> |debian-testing|" <nrtthnjz2y0t@sneakemail.com> said:
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 07:58:18PM +0100, Dani wrote:
> > > 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 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.
>
> Done.
>
> > Try 'modprobe ide-scsi' and see if the drive is reported. If so, add
> > ide-scsi to /etc/modules.
>
> # modprobe ide-scsi
> modprobe: failed to load module ide-scsi
>
> Now what? My CD-RW is in the secondary master.
>
> Please help. TIA.
This is very strange. I looked up that drive on the Sony web site and
it is definitely an ATAPI drive. It has the same specifications as my
drive (which apparently is the OEM version of the same device), so I
have no idea what the problem might be.
I think the sarge installer is still a work in progress, so that might
be a factor. Have you used this drive with Debian before? My system
is currently a hybrid--Libranet installation, upgraded to sarge with a
bit of sid thrown in for good measure, although the CD-RW was
previously used with both woody and sarge. I have installed sarge
using pgi with this CD-RW, which might work for you.
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