Hi. On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:10:26 -0800, "Bob Nielsen nielsen-at-oz.net |debian-testing|" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 07:58:18PM +0100, Dani wrote: > > I'm netinstalling Debian Sarge from a minimal CD. I boot the CD > > and it fails to autodetect the CD drive, maybe because it's a > > CD-RW. It's Sony CRX175A1. The installation show me the following > > list of kernel modules: > > aztcd, cdu31a, cm206, gscd, isp16, mcd, mcdx, optcd, sbpcd, sjcd, > > sonycd535. > > > > Which may I choose? [...] > I suspect none of the above. Those are really old drivers, used for > non-ATAPI drives. I have a Sony CRX175E2 drive, which is a > similar-enough model number that I strongly suspect it uses the same > driver. This drive is ATAPI-IDE and will read if you use the ide-cd > driver. For writing, the ide-scsi driver is required although this > driver will work for reading as well, which simplifies things. See > the CD-Writing-HOWTO for further information.
Done. > Try 'modprobe ide-scsi' and see if the drive is reported. If so, add > ide-scsi to /etc/modules. # modprobe ide-scsi modprobe: failed to load module ide-scsi Now what? My CD-RW is in the secondary master. Please help. TIA. -- --| XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX <mailto:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX> "The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap." -- Greg Palast -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service
