Re: CDROM drives stopped working after move to unstable

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 20:38:08 -0700, Joshua McGee wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Both my CDROM drives stopped working up after moving to unstable.  The
> second one (/dev/cdrom1) stopped showing up entirely.

Did you go to unstable from stable (Sarge) or testing (Etch)? The reason
I am asking this is that I want to make sure that you have purged
hotplug if that was necessary. If you post the output of

dpkg -l udev\* hotplug\*

we can check that easily.

> www:~# ls /dev/cd*
> /dev/cdrom  /dev/cdu535

The thing to keep in mind is that /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrom1 are only
symlinks to the real device nodes. If you use an IDE controller the real
devices will be /dev/hdX (where "X" is a lowercase letter) or /dev/sdX
if you use SCSI. If you run "lspci" you can check for a line which says
"IDE" or "SCSI". Post this information here so that we know which
controller you are using. You can also use "file /dev/cdrom" to find out
where this symlink is pointing. If you think you have found the real
device node you can use "cdrom_id" to check if udev recognizes its
capabilities correctly. Let me illustrate this with my own computer
(which has one IDE cdrom):

$ file /dev/cdrom
/dev/cdrom: symbolic link to `hdc'

$ ls -l /dev/hd*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk   3, 0 2006-04-29 22:22 /dev/hda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk   3, 1 2006-04-29 22:22 /dev/hda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk   3, 2 2006-04-29 22:22 /dev/hda2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk   3, 5 2006-04-29 22:22 /dev/hda5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk   3, 6 2006-04-29 22:22 /dev/hda6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk   3, 7 2006-04-29 22:22 /dev/hda7
brw-rw---- 1 root disk   3, 8 2006-04-29 20:22 /dev/hda8
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 2006-04-29 22:22 /dev/hdc

(hda is my hard disk which has 6 partitions and hdc is my cdrom)

$ /lib/udev/cdrom_id /dev/hdc
ID_CDROM=1
ID_CDROM_CD_R=1
ID_CDROM_CD_RW=1

> (With an audio CD)
> www:~# abcde
> cd-discid: /dev/cdrom: CDROMREADTOCHDR: Input/output error
> [ERROR] abcde: CD could not be read. Perhaps there's no CD in the drive?
> 
> (With a CDROM)
> www:~# mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> 
> Am I missing something obvious?

It is probably a problem with udev which is responsible for creating the
device nodes and symlinks. If you post the output of the commands that I
mentioned above we will know more.

-- 
Regards,
          Florian