Re: CDROM problem

[juice@airmail.net (Elaina Tillinghast)]

I have been fighting a simular problem. I've traced mine down to the
scsi driver probing for devices during boot-up. If the cdrom is found
during bootup, the adding of the module will add sr. Most of the time,
this new resc1440.bin doesn't find my cdrom. Once booted
Press alt+F2 if you need a new terminal to work in
cd /proc
cat devices

11     sr
should be one of the entries or you're not getting any closer.
The software device sr is needed to talk to cdroms. The command
`dmesg` ( or `dmsg` I keep forgetting) will show you the scroll that
happened during bootup. If your cdrom is not listed then you have the
same problem I do. 

I have an adaptec 2940u scsi pci controller. There is a chance that
you don't have the same problem I have had but I have seen 2 other
complaints in the last week plus, but no real answers yet. 

What I am looking for now:

1. an option to give the scsi driver during configuration to extend
the timeout of waiting for devices to respond

2. a way to tell the kernel there is a drive it missed and to add it
to its lists.

Feel free to contact me if there is a chance we can compare notes.


Juice --have fun --harm none

On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 12:29:03 +0100, you wrote:

>hello,
>
>when I install the latest version of linux (debian) from a CDROM
>eveything works good until it begins with dselect. It ask me for the
>source and I tell it CDROM, after
>it ask me for "the block device type" and it is imposible to go ahead. I
>
>try some things like this:
>    /dev/hdb
>but it say that the kernel do not support the iso9660 norm. I do not
>understand because it make the all instalation from the CDROM. If I
>execute a shell I can't mount the CDROM and it tell me the same thing
>about the iso norm even if I mount it with the next command:
>    mount /dev/hdb -t iso9660 /cdrom
>Last year with the same computer I could install an older version of
>debian. Now I can't install the same version. The only thing that difers
>
>from before is that I have install a CDROM writer.
>I have a pentium 166MMX.
>
>Notes:
>- I can install the latest version of RED HAT and after I can mount
>perfectly the CDROM but I prefer to install the Debian distribution.
>- Somebody told me that probably the iso9660 file system is configured
>as a module but I couldn't do anything wiyh the insmod command. May be I
>
>don't do it well.
>
>Thanks a lot.
>
>