Combo drive on VAIO R505GL

Gil · Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 5:46 pm Post subject: Combo drive on VAIO R505GL

I've been fighting for a while to get this cd-rom working, at first couldn't get the ohci1394 and sbp2 modules to run. Those 2 works now after I've applied the patch on ACPI.

Now I have pcmcia_core, i83265, ds, ohci1394, sbp2, sr_mod in modules.autoload (everything else, I enabled as "build-in" instead of modules). I doubled checked that ohci1394, sbp2 and sr_mod are all loaded properly. But the cd-rom is not coming up when I try to mount it...
It complains --
mount: special device /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 does not exist
I found nothing inside directories /mnt/cdroms, /mnt/scsi, and /mnt/ieee1394

Any help is appreciated

Gil · Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 10:58 pm Post subject: Fixed

Fixed. Sorry, it's my problem...
Carelessly checked one of the scsi stuff as module instead of build in support...
so it never gets loaded.

plate · Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 12:09 am Post subject:

Just out of curiosity, could you post a few lines (the relevant ones

) from your kernel config file? My CD drive is broken, so I can't test it, but I'd like to have things ready for the replacement drive.

Gil · Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 4:48 am Post subject:

Hi, I'm n00b. I just follow whatever information I could find and keep trying.
So, I dun know exactly which settings are critical for it to work.
So I will list all the SCSI and IEEE1394 stuff here.

#SCSI support
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_SD_EXTRA_DEVS=40
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m
CONFIG_SR_EXTRA_DEVS=2
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y
CONFIG_SCSI_DEBUG_QUEUES=y
CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y

#IEEE 1394 support
CONFIG_IEEE1394=y
CONFIG_IEEE1394_OHCI1394=m
CONFIG_IEEE1394_SBP2=m
CONFIG_IEEE1394_SBP2_PHYS_DMA=y
CONFIG_IEEE1394_RAWIO=y

and one more, in ATA/IDE support
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=y

and I have ohci1394, sbp2 and sr_mod in modules.autoload

Hope this will be useful for you.