After a few days of exciting me, SuSE8.1 suddenly has become unable to install pacakages from the DVDROM; It wants me to insert the DVD in the LiteOn 16X10X40 CDRW in stead of the Toshiba DVD, where it so far used to look for data and which is the only place where DVD's can be read. It doesn't even try to see what's in the Toshiba drive, though this drive still can be mounted and data can be read from it. dmesg shows these lines: hde: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1712, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdf: LITE-ON LTR-16102B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hde: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache The mother board is a GA-7VAX The kernel boot line is: root=/dev/hda7 quiet hde=ide-cd hdf=ide-scsi vga=788 and /etc/fstab shows: /dev/hda7 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda6 /Mandrake reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 /varboot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda2 /windows/C vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0 /dev/hdd1 /windows/E vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0 /dev/hda9 /windows/F vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0 /dev/hda8 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 and the links look OK: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2003-03-05 19:15 /dev/dvd -> hde lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2003-03-06 20:23 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hde lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2003-03-05 19:15 /dev/cdrecorder -> sr0 In /var/log/messages these lines are present: Mar 8 00:33:08 linux kernel: hde: bad special flag: 0x03 Mar 8 00:33:08 linux kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Mar 8 00:33:08 linux kernel: hde: no flushcache support Mar 8 00:33:08 linux kernel: hde: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Mar 8 00:33:09 linux /etc/hotplug/net.agent[812]: No HW description found ... exiting Mar 8 00:33:11 linux kernel: cdrom: open failed. Mar 8 00:33:11 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdf: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 8 00:33:11 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 21:40 (hdf), sector 64 Mar 8 00:33:11 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdf: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 8 00:33:11 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 21:40 (hdf), sector 66 Mar 8 00:33:11 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdf: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 8 00:33:11 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 21:40 (hdf), sector 68 Mar 8 00:33:11 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdf: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 8 00:33:11 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 21:40 (hdf), sector 70 Mar 8 00:33:11 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdf: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 8 00:33:11 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 21:40 (hdf), sector 72 Mar 8 00:33:11 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdf: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 8 00:33:11 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 21:40 (hdf), sector 74 Mar 8 00:33:11 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdf: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 8 00:33:11 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 21:40 (hdf), sector 76 Mar 8 00:33:11 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdf: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 8 00:33:11 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 21:40 (hdf), sector 78 Mar 8 00:33:14 linux kernel: cdrom: open failed. Ed Vaessen Disclaimer ************************************************************************ Aan dit bericht kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. Dit bericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Als u dit bericht per abuis hebt ontvangen, wordt u verzocht het te vernietigen en de afzender te informeren. Wij adviseren u om bij twijfel over de juistheid of de volledigheid van de mail contact met afzender op te nemen. ************************************************************************