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

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Thursday 13 January 2005 10:48 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> On Thu 13 Jan 05,  1:30 PM, p <p> said:
> > 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
>
> Ack!  Brain death.  Sorry.  Your Plextors are IDE, not SCSI.
>

thats ok!

here is some output from dmesg regarding all that is IDE:
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.2
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx

..perhaps a module for the IDE controller is not loading..?


-- 
Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
530.754.7341