[ale] Debian 2.6.8/Plextor dvd help please

[Sergio Chaves]

I'm with you.
As I mentioned before, my friend had the exact same problem with the 
exact same device.
If I am not mistaken, kernel 2.6.8 versions up to -10 have this "illness".

A quick live cd boot solved the mystery.

What is the output of "uname -a" ?

Jim wrote:

> 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.
>>
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