Re: [Sheflug] strange problem with CDROM...

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:

> I've got a pretty new machine here (P-II ~750MHz), I recently compiled a
> 2.4.2 kernel for it, it's working fine, but... I just noticed - I can't
> mount cds!... cdrom is detected at start-up, /dev/hdb looks fine, as
> suggested i CDROM-HOWTO I checked dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/null bs=2048 it
> returned immediately with 0+0 blocks in/out... (yes, there's a cd in the
> drive). It worked before with 2.2.14... (SuSE-6.4) And - what's the most
> weird - as cdrom module gets loaded - at the same time lp parport and
> parport_pc do!... WHY???... I checked - nothing like parallel ide was
> compiled... Is anything wrong somewhere with /dev stuff? Can't see any
> problems there... Or modules.config?... Ideas?

Have you got the latest modutils?

Also I believe there have been audio CD problems in 2.4.1/2.4.2.
If you try the ac patches there may be a fix.


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