Re: CD-RW problems on ThinkPad X23
"Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]>
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> Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 18:59:07 -0400 > From: Jesse Sheidlower <[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] > > > I have an IBM ThinkPad X23 running FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE, and am having > various problems with my CD-RW drive. It's part of the Ultrabase, > which is how the X-series laptops add some peripherals. > > I didn't do anything special to configure it; it just worked. I had > previously used it to install some software, but I don't have any > CD-ROMs around right now for testing. I had never tried anything > else, since I didn't need to burn any CDs and I hadn't gotten around > to getting sound support compiled. > > Now that I've done so, I find that I can't really do much. If I try > to put in an audio CD, with the GUI CD Player app, I get the message, > "Error accessing cdrom device. Please check to make sure cdrom drive > support is compiled into the kernel, and that you have permission to > access the device. Reason: no such file or directory." Using > cdcontrol on the command line, I get: > > cdcontrol: no disc in drive /dev/acd0c > > even when there is. > > Burning CDs doesn't work either; I constantly get: > > monopoly/ # burncd data test.iso fixate > burncd: open(/dev/acd0c): Device not configured > > It does register on boot: > > monopoly/ # dmesg | grep acd > acd0: CD-RW <CD-W28E> at ata1-master PIO4 > > Any suggestions for where I should start to poke? I haven't found > anything too helpful online. The most obvious is permissions. Are you doing this as root or as a user? If you ae running as root, do "ls -l /dev/acd*". What are the major and minor modes? acd0a and acd0c should both should be 117 0. If they ae not, delete them and "cd /dev;MAKEDEV acd0" Hope this helps. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"