Hi all, I'm just getting to grips with Linux, and have managed to find out answers to most of my questions, but this one has me foxed.
However, I have just started to get Ogle working, when I discovered that my DVD/CD drive is not showing up in /dev/. hdb is there (which is my hard disk). Note that this is not a SCSI or SATA system - plain vanilla EIDE. I know the drive works: I installed the base packages with it! I can continue to boot up with it! Can I get anything to see it however? $ ls /dev/hd* /dev/hdb /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdb2 /dev/hdb3 This is a snipped version of the dmesg output. I can't see anything obvious. Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:02.5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11 PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.5[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 SIS5513: chipset revision 0 SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later SIS5513: SiS 962/963 MuTIOL IDE UDMA133 controller ide0: BM-DMA at 0xa400-0xa407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA Probing IDE interface ide0... ide0: Wait for ready failed before probe ! hdb: Maxtor 6E040L0, ATA DISK drive elevator: using anticipatory as default io scheduler ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hdb: max request size: 128KiB hdb: 80293248 sectors (41110 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(133) hdb: cache flushes supported /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2 p3 Probing IDE interface ide1... Probing IDE interface ide2... Probing IDE interface ide3... Probing IDE interface ide4... Probing IDE interface ide5... Stopping tasks: ==| Freeing memory... done (458 pages freed) Restarting tasks... done EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Adding 489972k swap on /dev/hdb2. Priority:-1 extents:1 EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x77:cool:, irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1 ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394' Any help would be appreciated