[wellylug] hdc / dvd drive gone

[Peter Lambrechtsen]

Are you sure it hasn't just re-appeared as /dev/sr0.  What does the
dmesg say about what the device is assigned to?

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Dr Edouard Charlaron
<e.chalaron at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi all
> I have a bit of a worry here.
> After a kernel upgrade my DVD drive is gone.
> No hdc in /dev
> I don't even get a disk-path etc... ref to my dvd drive.
> It's not the first time it happens.
>
> Not sure where to go from there. Create a device block myself with mknod and
> add hdc=cdrom in the
> grub menu? Last time a new update just made it to come back to life.
>
> I could probably update to a newer version (still ubuntu feisty), but I
> would have to go back to the pain of resintalling googlearth and skype and
> other flash stuff, driver for the broadcom 4311 etc... and it would be a
> SUSE distro anyway.
> So a quick fix would be a good idea.
>
> Any advice ? Thanks a lot
> E
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