On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 06:06, Filippos Klironomos wrote: > > > > scsibus0: > > 0,0,0 0) 'Generic ' 'STORAGE DEVICE ' '1.00' Removable Disk > > > > I am not sure if I like this! What is your CD drive name? It should > be showing here. I think your CD drive is not recognized properly. Can > you please post the exact error message you get from the bootup > prosess? Do a: > > grep -i -C5 'hdc' /var/log/dmseg > > and then post the results. Also look at > > cat /proc/ide/hdc/ > > for media info. I think you problem is here. I have a AOpen drive. grep -i -C5 'hdc' /var/log/dmesg NFORCE2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:09.0 NFORCE2: chipset revision 162 NFORCE2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later NFORCE2: 0000:00:09.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: ST340810A, ATA DISK drive hdb: WDC WD600BB-32CCB0, ATA DISK drive Using cfq io scheduler ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hdc: AOPEN CD-RW CRW5232 1.03 20031013, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(33) hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hdb: max request size: 128KiB hdb: 117231408 sectors (60022 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(33) hdb: hdb1 hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide usbcore: registered new driver hiddev usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver -- usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: command error: error=0x50 end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 0 Adding 2047744k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. udf: registering filesystem cdrom: hdc: mrw address space DMA selected cdrom: hdc: mrw address space DMA selected kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. cd /proc/ide/hdc cat driver ide-cdrom version 4.61 cat capacity 4 cat media cdrom cat model AOPEN CD-RW CRW5232 1.03 20031013 cat settings name value min max mode ---- ----- --- --- ---- current_speed 66 0 70 rw dsc_overlap 0 0 1 rw ide-scsi 0 0 1 rw init_speed 12 0 70 rw io_32bit 1 0 3 rw keepsettings 0 0 1 rw nice1 1 0 1 rw number 2 0 3 rw pio_mode write-only 0 255 w unmaskirq 1 0 1 rw using_dma 1 0 1 rw Here it does show it as an AOpen drive and not just generic. Thanks again