Optical drives not being recognised [SOLVED]

[NathanZachary]

Hello all,

As I rarely use CDs at all on my machines, I didn't realise this problem until now. My optical drives are not being recognised. I currently use Openbox with PCManFM. If I plug in a USB drive, it shows up in the left-hand pane so that I can mount it. However, my optical drives do not show up when they have a disc in them. Worse yet, I can't mount them manually. When I issue:

[Jaglover]

Can you mount them when using some Linux LiveCD? Maybe you missed something in your kernel configuration, my optical drives are /dev/scdX.
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[pappy_mcfae]

Do you have hal/dbus set up to autostart? Is your user name under cdrom and cdrw groups in /etc/group? If you do have hal/dbus set up, remove the invocations of the drives in /etc/fstab, and retry after assuring you have things set up right in /etc/group.

If that doesn't work, see if the drives will boot the machine. If yes, post your kernel .config, the results of lspci -n and cat /proc/cpuinfo and I'll see about getting things going.

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[NathanZachary]

I do have dbus and hald in the default runlevel, and they have both started successfully. The invocations have been removed from /etc/fstab (which is how they were originally). My user is in both the cdrom and cdrw groups. The drives do boot the machine. I'm guessing that it is a kernel configuration problem, which is odd because I never have had difficulty with this machine regarding kernel config. Anyway, here is the entire .config:

[cach0rr0]

hrmm...looks very similar to a rig I did for my buddy a while back, terms of hardware

even down to the ICH5 (though his == hardened-sources, so I don't reckon you could build from his .config)

http://whitehathouston.com/hardware/Server/Dell%20Dimension%204600/

the OLDPIIX is in there on yours, not sure it necessarily needs to be.

You might try running with ONLY the ATA_PIIX (which you already have ticked, just untick the OLDPIIX and rebuild)

I'll dig back through the errors once I post this and see if I can get any joy

EDIT:

this is jumping out at me

[pappy_mcfae]

Can you post our .config unedited, or post it via pastebin? The tools get persnickety with a chopped up .config.

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[NathanZachary]

I'm not sure what you mean by unedited, but here it is on pastebin:

http://pastebin.com/m52323074
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[pappy_mcfae]

Unedited=not missing the header with date and kernel version information. It looks like you have the wrong SCSI options set. Also, there is only one driver for your IDE. You don't need the generic ATA support, or the other intel driver support, or AHCI.

You can use one of my seeds as a guide for the SCSI settings. I can also set this one up for you, if you would like.

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[NathanZachary]

Could you give me some pointers as to which SCSI options are incorrect? I would love to know what I did incorrectly, so that I may learn from the mistake. Thanks for the help thus far.
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[Jaglover]

Here's my SCSI section for reference.

[pappy_mcfae]

Here are the settings I use: