[ltp] DVD(+RW) on T42 with 2.6.9?

Nick Bower linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 13 Nov 2004 23:41:08 +0100


I think I just solved this.  Mount the device against /dev/dvd instead
and it seems to work.

On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 23:36 +0100, Nick Bower wrote:
> Hi - I just compiled 2.6.9 for a T42 but can't get the DVD/CD drive to
> read a DVD+RW disc (bad fs type it says).  A supplied Mandrake 10.1
> kernel did read this disc fine, but for my own kernel, I can't determine
> what's required.  I even patched the kernel with the DVD+RW patch here;
> 
> http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/
> 
> but this doesn't work either.
> 
> Does anyone know?  Thanks, Nick.
> 
> 
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Nick Bower <nick@nickbower.com>