From ryandav@u.washington.edu Sat Feb 5 11:19:38 2000 Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (root@jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id LAA32068 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 11:19:37 -0800 Received: from dante18.u.washington.edu (ryandav@dante18.u.washington.edu [140.142.15.68]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW00.01) with ESMTP id LAA32072 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 11:19:36 -0800 Received: from localhost (ryandav@localhost) by dante18.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id LAA77672 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 11:19:36 -0800 Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 11:19:35 -0800 (PST) From: "R. David Whitlock" To: UW Linux Group Subject: Re: block devices? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I did all of this last night and got the thing to work, but I'm still sure there's something else going on here, since I refuse to believe that the install just forgot to put the ide-cd module in. Whatever, it works now at least. I was reluctant to lose the kernel they give because of some extra security features they build into it, but I'm going through some of them now and adding them manually. Live and learn... Later, David On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Richard M. Lotz wrote: > The files you list in the cdrom directory only apply to the non scsi and > non ide cdrom drives (most of the drivers listed are for older cdroms that > connected via the the soundcard). The "block" directory will list > ide-cd.o, "cdrom" should list a file named cdrom.o for atapi/ide cdroms. > > Run `make menuconfig` in /usr/src/linux, under "Block Devices" look to see > if "Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support" has an '*' (or > 'M') and verify that "Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support" is either '*' or > 'M'. Change them if to included ('*') and then recompile the kernel. > > NOTE: before running make modules_install purge the old modules from your > /lib/modules/2.2.?? dir. > > make dep && make modules && make modules_install && make install > *should* work, though I've never tried under mandrake (may also > need a make clean thrown in). I'd recommend you upgrade to the > latest kernel (2.2.14) and remove all the unneeded modules and devices. > > A lean kernel is happy kernel :) > > -richard > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Lotz http://sidereus.net > rlotz@u.washington.edu ICQ: 12348088 > > On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, R. David Whitlock wrote: > > > OK, well, according to the info at that dir (thanks richard) my main > > problem is that the driver isn't actually loading. > > > > ide-cd.o doesn't exist on the system. I'm looking in > > /lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk > > and > > /lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdksecure > > and neither have ide-cd.o or anything like it. I'm not sure what to make > > of this... > > > > [root@cartman cdrom]# ls -l > > total 324 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39120 Jan 4 12:30 aztcd.o > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34196 Jan 4 12:30 cdu31a.o > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23544 Jan 4 12:30 cm206.o > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9536 Jan 4 12:30 gscd.o > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5716 Jan 4 12:30 isp16.o > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20304 Jan 4 12:30 mcd.o > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21612 Jan 4 12:30 mcdx.o > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27752 Jan 4 12:30 optcd.o > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79984 Jan 4 12:30 sbpcd.o > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25512 Jan 4 12:30 sjcd.o > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20188 Jan 4 12:30 sonycd535.o > > > > These are the only ones I have. Where do I get the driver? I find it > > hard to believe that I would have to recompile the kernel for a standard > > install just to get a working ide-cd module. > > > > Later, > > David > > > > > .