Hi
After my last machine crashed and burned, I replaced the box with an HP
Pavillion which has the following specs:
AMD Sempron 2300 Dual-Core
Dual Layer DVD Rewriter
With a fresh installation of Squeeze (using Netinst via a CD) there have
been several issues which I am progressively trying to work through.
I've never used a SATA drive before, so some of this may just be my lack
of familiarity with the system.
However, when I load up an audio CD nothing happens. When I go into
Xfce4's "File System" icon there is no CD/DVD drive listed, so checking
dmesg I note the following:
[ 2.926195] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653Z
4403 PQ: 0 ANSI:5
[ 4.257290] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 4.257379] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
As I understand this, this would suggest that the CD-DVD drive *is*
being mounted at boot time, and is referred to by the system as "sr0".
Looking at /etc/fstab I find the following:
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,auto 0 0
Inserting an audio CD, KsCD (the CD-player program) correctly identifies
the track listing for the CD and I can eject the CD either through the
command-line or from KsCD. Goobox however just claims "invalid device".
But, the CD/DVD icon still does not appear under "File System", nor can
I play any audio CDs.
Changing the /etc/fstab entry to reflect what dmesg picks up - /dev/sr0
and reloading the CD makes no difference.
Using a DVD now as a test - at least I can now get an icon that appears
on both my desktop and in "file system". However, using KMPlayer the
DVD refuses to play - first with an error message that mplayer is not
running and then that gxine is not running. Using mplayer directly, the
error message is that "no media was opened".
Looking through Google, most of the links that seem associated with
various search terms (e.g. "sata cddvd /dev/scd0 debian", "sata tsstcorp
cddvd /dev/sr0 debian", and "tsstcorp cddvd /dev/sr0 debian") point to
either bugs in the kernel's handling of amd which was supposed to have
been fixed circa 2.26.25 (I'm using kernel 2.26.6-2-686), while other
posts suggest modifying the /etc/fstab directly. This I have tried to
do by adding /dev/scd0 and /dev/cdrom at different times. I even
changed the filesystem type to "auto" rather than the "udf" which was
the default. None of these make any difference at all.
Finally, looking at /dev/disk/by-id gives:
ata-WDC_WD3200AAJS-65M0A0_WD-WMAV22139666
ata-WDC_WD3200AAJS-65M0A0_WD-WMAV22139666-part1
ata-WDC_WD3200AAJS-65M0A0_WD-WMAV22139666-part2
ata-WDC_WD3200AAJS-65M0A0_WD-WMAV22139666-part3
scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAJS-_WD-WMAV22139666
scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAJS-_WD-WMAV22139666-part1
scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAJS-_WD-WMAV22139666-part2
scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAJS-_WD-WMAV22139666-part3
usb-EPSON_Stylus_Storage_L34020702070700430-0:0
usb-Generic-_Compact_Flash_20060413092100000-0:0
usb-Generic-_MS_MS-Pro_20060413092100000-0:3
usb-Generic-_SD_MMC_20060413092100000-0:2
usb-Generic-_SM_xD-Picture_20060413092100000-0:1
usb-Seagate_FreeAgentDesktop_9QG672LH-0:0
usb-Seagate_FreeAgentDesktop_9QG672LH-0:0-part1
The USB-Generic and USB-Seagate and USB-EPSON are all fine: I know what
they refer to. I don't know if the CD/DVD is referenced here because I
can't tell the references for ata-WDC and scsi-SATA apart. One of them
may refer to the USB- enclosure I had to put my last IDE HDD into in
order to copy data from it onto my SATA drive, but I don't know for sure.
I have exhausted all of my limited skills in trying to (a) understand
what all of this is about and (b) how to fix it. Please help!!
Thanks in anticipation.
AG
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