[Gllug] My computers got no nose^H^H^H^HCD drive

[Chris Bell]

On Thu 23 Dec, John Winters wrote:
> 
> I've just found something odd on one of my boxes.  Since I upgraded it
> to a 2.6 kernel it thinks it hasn't got a CD drive.
> 

> 
> Apart from the IDE CD writer the system is pure SCSI.  Two SCSI
> controllers, two SCSI HDDs and two SCSI tape drives.  It boots from one
> of the SCSI HDDs.
> 
> An lsmod shows:
> 
> ide_cd                 43232  0
> ide_core              142524  2 piix,ide_cd
> cdrom                  41148  2 sr_mod,ide_cd
> 
> but trying to access it as hda, or using cdrecord --scanbus dev=ATAPI:
> both fail.
> 
> It's a fairly recent clean Sarge installation and the ide-scsi module is
> *not* loaded.  I'm trying to access it purely as an IDE device.
> 
> Any suggestions for other things to check?
> 
> TIA,
> John
> 
   I have already sent bug reports for the new Debian installer saying that
it does not handle a mixed SCSI + IDE system, although in my case it was the
other way round, with two IDE discs, IDE CD ROM, and IDE CD Writer which
were OK, while an additional SCSI disc was partitioned, formatted, and
named, but not available after booting. I was told that only one system is
normally installed, so edit /etc/modules by hand.

-- 
Chris Bell

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