> Well, the BIOS recognises the drive, udev isn't
> giving you nodes. Is
> the kernel seeing it? Check dmesg.
>
no mention of the drive in dmesg
> What do you have under /dev? When you say the
> device node, do you mean
> /dev/sd? or do you mean /dev/dvd or /dev/cdrom?
> What about
> /dev/disk/by-id?
>
id for (now dead cdrom) was scd0 and for dvd was scd1
> If dmesg gives you the device name but there is no
> node in /dev, just
> use mknod and make it manually (as a work-around to
> allow the backup).
>
> As for a permanent fix, good luck. I hate udev.
> Hopefully, someone
> here will tell you how to fix it.
>
thanks
sorry it took so long to get back on this one, but had
some issues to deal with on the home front that took presedence
jwlockhart
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