> This seems to have a problem. If cat does not work then it seems > indicative of something deeper than previously thought. > > Can you do a cat on /etc/modprobe.comf ? > Were you SUed to root when you did the cat on /proc/ide/hdc/* ? > What directory were you in when you did that? yes I was SUed as root when I tried to do the cat earlier however what he sent me wasnt just cat /proc/ide/hdc/* as it had hdc.info after it. not sure if that was supposed to write to hdc.info file or not cat /proc/ide/hdc/* 563096 ide-cdrom version 4.61 85c0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 0000 0000 0000 312e 3033 2020 2020 414f 5045 4e20 2020 4344 2d52 5720 4352 5735 3233 3220 2020 2020 312e 3033 2032 3030 3331 3031 3320 0000 0000 0f00 0000 0200 0200 0006 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0007 0007 0003 0078 0078 00f0 0078 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0020 0013 4218 4000 4000 4218 0000 4000 0407 0000 0000 0000 0000 600f 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 cdrom AOPEN CD-RW CRW5232 1.03 20031013 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 Thanks
