burner disappears after update kernel

[Jeff Vian]

Marc Wijtkamp wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 18:21, Jeff Vian wrote:
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>>Marc Wijtkamp wrote:
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>>>Sadly enough, dmesg says:
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>>>ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
>>>hdd: _NEC DVD_RW ND-2500A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
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>>The above indicates hdc is a DVDROM and not a DVD burner
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Sorry, I read the tail end of the second line, but overlooked the first 
part.  I now have no clue :-(

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>It's a cdrom/dvd burner.. I am very sure about that since everything is
>working using the default 2.6.5 kernel. Perhaps kernel 2.6.6 doesn't
>support this device? 
>My other NEC, a cdrom/dvd drive is detected properly. Again, using the
>default FC2 kernel there is no problem (eg. K3B is working properly)
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