[ale] Debian 2.6.8/Plextor dvd help please

[Jim]

I have a Debian partition with 2.6.8  that I tried to get the DVD 
recorder working on but was never successful.  I dual boot SUSE 9 and 
that works.  Anyway, I finally found after googling a lot that there is 
a bug in 2.6.8 that makes it impossible to use a DVD or CD recorder.  I 
don't recall the details at this time but back off to 2.6.4 and you 
might have more luck.

Jim.
Geoffrey wrote:

> Jim Seymour wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 11:56:09AM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
>>
>>> If the device is not seen in the logs, I doubt that it will show up 
>>> as a scsi device in this manner.
>>>
>>> I didn't see a response to whether it exists in /proc/ide
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Sorry I forgot to post that one. If we mean what does "cat
>> /proc/ide/drivers" show, then it is empty. That is the only file that
>> shows up under /proc/ide. I am assuming this is again pointing to a
>> hardware issue.
>
>
> This is correct.  If you had any ide devices you'd see directories 
> such as hda, hdb and ide0, ide1
>
> This pretty much indicates that your hardware is not being seen at all.
>