On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 12:18 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 21:35 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 16:35 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > > On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 20:21 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: > > > > I have a machine with a dvd writer (/dev/hdc) and a cd writer > > > > (/dev/hdd). > > > > > > > under Lenny, the CD writer will not recognise a blank CD. Nothing. The > > > > DVD writer will recognise one. > > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > Humm... you might want to check how HAL detects that devices. There are > > > some GUIs, but you can send a report with: > > > > > > hal-find-by-capability --capability storage.cdrom | xargs hal-device > > > > > > I suppose it's important to have a line with "storage.cdrom.cdrw = > > > true", then we can check "storage.removable.media_available" ... > > > > > > Franklin > > > > > Thanks for the ideas Franklin. > > This looks like it might open a can of worms ... > > Actually, nautilus-cd-burner's README.Debian states: > > "This code detects available CD writers by examining files in /proc. > It will try /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info which is created by the 'cdrom' > module, and /proc/scsi/sg/devices which is created by the 'sg' > module. One of these modules must be loaded for nautilus-cd-burner > to work." > > So, check if the appropriate modules are loaded, then have a look on the > kernel side (which Kernel do you use? can you test 2.6.26 or 2.6.30) > > Franklin > I'm running standard Debian 2.6.26-1-686 kernel. Neither installation has sg devices; both have /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info listing both hdd and hdc. The only difference between them is that the etch one thinks that hdd: Can read MRW: 1 Can write MRW: 1 Can write RAM: 1
Other than this, both files have the same information. What further investigation should I do? Hope this helps! Bruce. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
