The problem is the following: when I boot form the install (disk 1) CDRom from SuSE, everything is all right... at boot time the three ATAPI drives are detected. However, if I boot the installed precompiled kernel, or anyone compiled by myself, Linux does not see /dev/hdd... I get the following mess at boot-time (dmesg):
hdd: no response (status=0xd0)
and thereby I cannot access the CDRW not even as a single CD drive. What puzzles me most is why the installation disk recognizes it? Can anyone help me here?
There are quite a few reasons why the drive is not being seen. First of all, if the CD-ROM drive is made from Acer, it needs to be a slave on the Primary IDE Interface with the primary harddisk set to Master. That might be the case for some other CD-ROM's as well. If not, go into your kernel and check to see if you have selected the IDE-Atapi CD-ROM support. If that is not selected, then you will have to re-compile the kernel. Most kernels identify the CD-ROM device as a hdc, not hdd. However, from your message, you say that you can't access the CDRW, is that a CD Reader/Writer. Then if that is the case, then it is possible that Linux does not have support for a Reader/Writer. You will have to check with your Linux Distributor to see if the specific CD-RW device is supported and you can check the manufacturer as well. I do not see any other explanation. Hope this helps! Paul Brun --- pbrun@geocities.com - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e