Where are my CD drives?

[TaNeK]

Greetings

After a kernel recompile (formerly using standard precompiled 2.4.27 debian sarge kernel) I can no longer use my cd drives. /devhda and /dev/hdb are siply not present according to my new kernel. I've tried everything I can think of (checking kernel config and changing support on and off, but nothing works...) One is a CD-RW-burner and one is a DVD-ROM. Do I have to compile IDE-support as modules? What am I doing wrong? Probably something right in front of me, which I fail too see :(.

Any ideas are appreciated!

[MisterB]

Do you see any new devices under /dev ? Also, check out the output from dmesg. ie:

# dmesg | grep CD (or grep ROM or DVD etc.)

[TaNeK]

All my dmesgs give is code about dropped and aborted network connections, messages that keep popping up when running in text-mode(console, whatever it's called, no X anyway:D)... No real info...

ABORTED IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=00:d0:70:01:fb:66:00:05:5d:23:f0:92:08:00 SRC=66.69.222.125 DST=192.168.0.139 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=106 ID=18998 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=3389 DPT=139 SEQ=2694368019 ACK=3049021040 WINDOW=0 RES=0x00 RST URGP=0

About 50 of those...

[davisfactor]

Did you upgrade to a 2.6 kernel? The 2.6 kernels no longer need SCSI emulation support for RW drives.

You can see what your drives are labeled by doing a quick search through your dmesg log.

dmesg | grep -i hd

or grep -i hd /var/log/dmesg

If you're using cdrecord to look for your drives, try using this:

cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI

and to record, use the same syntax

cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=ATAPI:0,1,0 yourfile.iso

Hope this helps.

[TaNeK]

I dont have any scsi support atm, but I tried that, and it didn't seem to work... Don't think Im using cdrecord... Should I? How? :D