Situation: Machine with 2 CD/DVD writers on IDE channel 2. /dev/hdc is a DVD-RW; /dev/hdd is a CD-RW. Dual-booting between Etch (update from Sarge) and a fresh Lenny install.
Under Etch, both drives detect a blank CD and the kernel reports in /var/log/messages (and to a tty if using one): cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! Under Lenny, /dev/hdd fails to produce a kernel message, although the drive light indicates that the drive has detected medium. /dev/hdc reports in /var/log/messages: Jul 8 21:44:53 Samarkand kernel: [ 992.907877] cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! Neither drive produces a report to the user's tty. Problem: 1 Desktop CD-burner cannot/will not use CD-RW under Lenny 2 Lenny seems less capable of detecting blank media than Etch Lenny kernel version (uname -a): Linux Samarkand 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 18:08:45 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux Before anyone asks, I have installed linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 but it refuses to boot my system, dropping me to initramfs shell! That's another issue :->. Thank you folks, Bruce Ward. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
