[vox-tech] Plextor PX-712A not working...

[Peter Jay Salzman]

On Thu 13 Jan 05, 10:35 AM, Dylan Beaudette <debeaudette at ucdavis.edu> said:
> On Thursday 13 January 2005 10:16 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > On Thu 13 Jan 05, 10:18 AM, Dylan Beaudette <dylan at iici.no-ip.org> said:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I haven't bothered to try out the CDROM drive on this machine since linux
> > > was installed, and now with a 2.6 series kernel my CDROM drive has
> > > vanished! (or at least from the perspective of commands like mount)
> > >
> > > The drive is connected to the primary IDE channel, and my hard drive is
> > > connected to a serial IDE channel. As of kernel 2.6 my hard drive is
> > > accessed as a SCSI device. However, my cdrom drive does not answer to
> > > requests sent to hda,hdb,hdc,hdd ... nor to any SCSI devices...
> > >
> > > I googled for a possible kernel module that I need in order to use this
> > > drive, but didn't seem to find any pages suggesting that.
> > >
> > > also -- my kern.log and dmesg output don't even mention the drive...
> > >
> > > Any ideas would be quite helpful!
> >
> > Hi Dylan,
> >
> > If this is 2.6 we're talking about, do:
> >
> >    modprobe -a ide_cd
> >
> > If it says "module not found", look in your .config file to see if the
> > module was built into the kernel.
> >
> > Also, ide_cd and ide-scsi are mutually orthogonal.  Make sure that ide-scsi
> > is NOT enabled (or that the module is NOT loaded).
> >
> > Also, remove any arguments like:
> >
> >    hdX=ide-scsi
> >
> > that you may be passing to the kernel via lilo or grub.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Pete
> >
> > PS- Ignore cdrecord -scanbus.  It's useless now.  You access the drive
> > using the IDE name, as in:
> >
> >    cdrecord dev=/dev/hdX etc etc etc...
> 
> thanks for the ideas Pete!
> 
> here is the breakdown: 
> ide_cd module was loaded
> ide-scsi module was not loaded
> 
> kernel arguments are limited to:
> root=/dev/sda3 ro
> 
> ... i just checked in the internal connections, and the drive seems to be 
> connected properly. The drive mechanics (tray eject) seem to work fine, and 
> the machine is only about 6 months old...
> 
> I'm stumped!
 
Hy Dylan,

I'm sure there's a perfectly logical explanation.  There almost always is.
:)

You said that the cd drive doesn't show up in dmesg.  Fine.

But does your *scsi card* show up in dmesg?

Do you have the proper low level scsi card driver installed?

Pete

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