[Techtalk] DVD drive frustrations

[Carla Schroder]

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On Sunday 06 June 2004 10:48 pm, SJ Straith wrote:
> 
> Some starting information here.
> 
> I am running (for various reasons) a dual (Win2K, Debian 
> Linux) boot laptop.
> 
> For some reason while my laptop has no problem seeing my dvd 
> drive in Win2K it will NOT see my dvd drive even as a cd 
> drive in my debian boot.   
> 
> I know that LJL installed the proper drivers, etc when she 
> did my initial install, so I'm not sure what's wrong.
> 
> Anybody got some suggestions as to how I can correct this
> problem? 
> 

Is there anything in dmesg that might give a clue? It should be a plain ole 
ATAPI device, nothing extraordinary or weird there. This is what mine looks 
like:

hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver
hdc: ATAPI 24x DVD-RPM drive, 512B Cache, UDMA 33
Uniform CD-ROM driver revision: 3.12

It's possible that kernel support was not built in, it's usually a loadable 
module, ide-cd and cdrom (try /sbin/lsmod)

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