cam/passthrough device question

Peter Risdon peter at circlesquared.com
Thu Jul 22 11:50:07 PDT 2004


Joseph Peterson wrote:
> I have all of these in my kernel config file, but I'm getting the
> following in my dmesg;
> ata1-master: FAILURE - ATAPI_RESET no interrupt
> acd0: CDRW <TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2412> at ata1-master PIO4
> cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> cd0: <TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2412 1330> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
> cd0: 16.000MB/s transfers
> cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
> 
> yet when I start xcdroast, it tells me there are no CD burners in the
> system, even if I manually tell it to look at /dev/cd0 (which exists)
> it tells me it doesnt..
> And yes, I'm running xcdroast as root.

It might be permissions - try

#chmod 0666 /dev/cd0

and if that works, make it persist past a reboot (if you're running 5.x) 
by adding a line to /etc/devfs.conf like:

perm    cd0     0666

HTH

Peter.


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