Am Samstag, 16. Mai 2009 08:56:38 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: > Am Samstag, 16. Mai 2009 01:11:53 schrieb Philip Webb: > > 090515 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > Am Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 11:00:59 schrieb Philip Webb: > > >> For the 1st time in 2 months, I went to write a CD & discovered > > >> that /dev/sr0 is not being created nor symlink /dev/cdrom ; > > >> I looked at 'dmesg': no mention of 'sr' or 'cd' being found. > > >> I tested the drive: SystemRescue 1.1.0 (kernel 2.6.25.16) starts > > >> correctly & mounts /dev/sr0 on /mnt/cdrom ; its 'dmesg' says : > > >> sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/16x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda > > >> tray \ Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 > > > > > > Please post your kernel config. > > > > The relevant lines are > > No, the relevant lines are missing. Please post it completely, best > together with output from "lspci -v" when booted into the LiveCD. > > > > What BIOS says is irrelevant. > > > > It does mention 'PATA' & 'ATAPI', which mb relevant. > > For Windows, maybe. Not for Linux. > > Oh, just realised that you wanted to _write_ a CD (was too late yesterday > to > > read more carefully ;) ). Then, the relevant line is of course: > > # CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG is not set
However, since you don't even have the sr0 device, there may still be a different problem, so it won't hurt if you provide the requested information anyway, I guess. Bye... Dirk
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