> This is alot similar to another post about problems with cd writing. > Is this an external CD drive? You see scsi_mod has taken over and > 'sd_mod' instead of 'sr_mod' which is for a CD. What this means > according to my humble opinion is that the kernel thinks you external > usb CD drive is a SCSI storage device. I have an internal IDE CDRW. > So do a > > cat /proc/ide/hdc/* > hdc.info > > and post the contents of 'hdc.info'. cat /proc/ide/hdc/* > hdc.info -bash: hdc.info: No such file or directory so i went into proc/ide/hdc and these were the contents capacity driver identify media model settings i'm not sure where hdc.info would be . > This is similar to other posts having problems with external CD > drives. The only thing that I can think of right now is try to > prevent 'scsi_mod' from taking over 'hdc' by adding to your > '/etc/modprobe.conf'' > > options scsi_mod ignore=hdc since i cant seem to cat that i'll try adding that now and just see if that works. > and see what happens. But before you do that, post the results of the > cat command for /proc/ide/hdc/ to see what your kernel thinks about > 'hdc'. thanks
