Re: Unable to cdroms in linux 2.6.3

[stephen parkinson <stephen@zmemw16.demon.co.uk>]

Jeff Elkins wrote:

> On Monday 23 February 2004 3:49 am, stephen parkinson wrote:
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> > John L Fjellstad wrote:
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> >
> > > David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> writes:
> > >      
> > >
> > > > like. Under 2.6.*, you need /dev/scd0. Both can coexist until one is
> > > > ready to leave 2.4.2* forever. K3B (KDE burner) wants all CD burners
> > > > to mount to a / cdwriter directory. One can additionally mount to
> > > > /mnt/cd0, etc. for normal file operations. A longer fstab, that's all.
> > > >        
> > > That's weird. I don't believe I ever used /dev/scd? for my ide cdroms,
> > > and I haven't had any problems burning cds (although I haven't tested
> > > K3B yet).  I usually use devfs (and testing udev now with 2.6), and scd?
> > > have never showed up as a node at my place (with the ide cdrom. On my
> > > scsi cdrom system, I do use /dev/scd?, I think).
> > >      
> > would you please try k3b and report your findings?
> > here 2.6.3 with hdc=cdrom hdd=cdrom in grub/menu.list
> >
> > it used to report cannot find cdrecord and yes i have seen the
> > posts about wrapper script, now it hangs on scanning scsi bus
> >
> > cdrecord --scanbus reports the drives however
> >
> > all very strange, xcdroast initially sees 4 cdroms, 2 scsi 2 ide, a rescan
> > reduces it to two and it burns cdroms still
> >
> > stephen
> >    
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> I'm experiencing the SCSI-bus hang with 2.6.3 -- I dropped back to 2.6.1 and 
> k3b works fine...
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>  
oh piffle, back to 2.6.1 then, kernel.org there i go
i'd just tidied /usr/src & /boot as well

stephen