[ltp] CD ROM Mounting
Matt Foster
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:20:25 +0100
On Monday 29 March 2004 11:27, Carl Nygard wrote:
> I'm having troubles mounting any cd's on my T40. This seems to have
> happened after I was fiddling with 2.6.4, so perhaps that's related.
> Can someone tell me what device to use to mount? dmesg seems to
> indicate /dev/sr0, but that doesn't exist (anymore?). I'm using
> ide-scsi.
>
ide-scsi is broken under 2.6 (at least last time I looked). No need to
actually use it, recent versions of cdrecord and friends can talk direct
to atapi devices. Turn off ide-scsi (probably just remove hdc=ide-scsi
from bootloader options) and all should be well.
Matt
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