Re: DVD drive AWOL

2008-02-29 Thread joseph lockhart
> Well, the BIOS recognises the drive, udev isn't > giving you nodes. Is > the kernel seeing it? Check dmesg. > no mention of the drive in dmesg > What do you have under /dev? When you say the > device node, do you mean > /dev/sd? or do you mean /dev/dvd or /dev/cdrom? > What about > /dev/d

Re: DVD drive AWOL

2008-02-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/14/08 21:49, joseph lockhart wrote: >>> that knocked out our power and after recovering >> from >> >> UPS is your friend... >> > UPS? - big brown trucks? Big battery packs with a power cord on one end, and a bunch of electrical sockets on the ot

Re: DVD drive AWOL

2008-02-14 Thread joseph lockhart
> > that knocked out our power and after recovering > from > > UPS is your friend... > UPS? - big brown trucks? > > that my DVD burner seemed to go AWOL (that is the > > device nodes just vanished) > > > > checked syslog and no errors there, nothing on > udev > > documentation seemed to help,

Re: DVD drive AWOL

2008-02-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 08:15:06AM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote: > well, about a week ago we had a lovely thunderstorm > that knocked out our power and after recovering from > that my DVD burner seemed to go AWOL (that is the > device nodes just vanished) > > checked syslog and no errors there, no

DVD drive AWOL

2008-02-12 Thread joseph lockhart
well, about a week ago we had a lovely thunderstorm that knocked out our power and after recovering from that my DVD burner seemed to go AWOL (that is the device nodes just vanished) checked syslog and no errors there, nothing on udev documentation seemed to help, and STFW didn't help either. i'd