cd writer missing after F7 upgrade

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 1 23:07:16 UTC 2007


--- Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:33:54 -0400
> Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:
> 
> > Frank Cox wrote:
> > > I just discovered that my CD writer (the only
> "removable drive" on this
> > > machine) is missing after updating from F6 to
> F7.  It's just a standard-issue
> > > 52x IDE cd burner.
> > > 
> > > How can I get it back?
> > > 
> > 
> > Is there an old fstab sitting in /etc?
> 
> No, there is just one fstab here.
> 
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /                      
> ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3
>    defaults        1 2
> devpts                  /dev/pts               
> devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> tmpfs                   /dev/shm               
> tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> proc                    /proc                   proc
>    defaults        0 0
> sysfs                   /sys                   
> sysfs   defaults        0 0
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap                   
> swap    defaults        0 0
> 
> > What does dmesg say?
> 
> Linux version 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7
> (kojibuilder at xenbuilder4.fedora.phx.redhat.com)
> (gcc version 4.1.2 20070502 (Red Hat 4.1.2-12)) #1
> SMP Wed May 23 22:35:01 EDT
> 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: sanitize start
> sanitize end
> copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size:
> 000000000009fc00 end:
> 000000000009fc00 type: 1 copy_e820_map() type is
> E820_RAM
> copy_e820_map() start: 000000000009fc00 size:
> 0000000000000400 end:
> 00000000000a0000 type: 2 copy_e820_map() start:
> 00000000000e6000 size:
> 000000000001a000 end: 0000000000100000 type: 2
> copy_e820_map() start:
> 0000000000100000 size: 000000007de2fc00 end:
> 000000007df2fc00 type: 1
> copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM copy_e820_map()
> start: 000000007df2fc00 size:
> 0000000000000400 end: 000000007df30000 type: 4
> copy_e820_map() start:
> 000000007df30000 size: 0000000000010000 end:
> 000000007df40000 type: 3
> copy_e820_map() start: 000000007df40000 size:
> 00000000000b0000 end:
> 000000007dff0000 type: 4 copy_e820_map() start:
> 000000007dff0000 size:
> 0000000000010000 end: 000000007e000000 type: 2
> copy_e820_map() start:
> 00000000e0000000 size: 0000000010000000 end:
> 00000000f0000000 type: 2
> copy_e820_map() start: 00000000fed13000 size:
> 0000000000007000 end:
> 00000000fed1a000 type: 2 copy_e820_map() start:
> 00000000fed1c000 size:
> 0000000000084000 end: 00000000feda0000 type: 2
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 -
> 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820:
> 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000
> (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e6000 -
> 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820:
> 0000000000100000 - 000000007df2fc00 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 000000007df2fc00 -
> 000000007df30000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820:
> 000000007df30000 - 000000007df40000
> (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000007df40000 -
> 000000007dff0000 (ACPI NVS)
> BIOS-e820: 000000007dff0000 - 000000007e000000
> (reserved) BIOS-e820:
> 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000fed13000 -
> 00000000fed1a000 (reserved) BIOS-e820:
> 00000000fed1c000 - 00000000feda0000
> (reserved) 1119MB HIGHMEM available.
> 896MB LOWMEM available.
> found SMP MP-table at 000ff780
> Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX
> protection
> Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 515887) 0 entries of
> 256 used
> Zone PFN ranges:
>   DMA             0 ->     4096
>   Normal       4096 ->   229376
>   HighMem    229376 ->   515887
> early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
>     0:        0 ->   515887
> On node 0 totalpages: 515887
>   DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
>   DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
>   DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
>   Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap
>   Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31
>   HighMem zone: 2238 pages used for memmap
>   HighMem zone: 284273 pages, LIFO batch:31
> DMI 2.3 present.
> Using APIC driver default
> ACPI: RSDP 000F4EB0, 0014 (r0 ACPIAM)
> ACPI: RSDT 7DF30000, 003C (r1 INTEL  D915GMH 
> 20050128 MSFT       97)
> ACPI: FACP 7DF30200, 0081 (r2 INTEL  D915GMH 
> 20050128 MSFT       97)
> ACPI Warning (tbfadt-0360): Ignoring BIOS FADT r2
> C-state control [20070126]
> ACPI: DSDT 7DF30440, 5BDF (r1 INTEL  D915GMH        
> 1 INTL  2002026)
> ACPI: FACS 7DF40000, 0040
> ACPI: APIC 7DF30390, 0068 (r1 INTEL  D915GMH 
> 20050128 MSFT       97)
> ACPI: MCFG 7DF30400, 003C (r1 INTEL  D915GMH 
> 20050128 MSFT       97)
> ACPI: ASF! 7DF36020, 0099 (r16 LEGEND I865PASF      
>  1 INTL  2002026)
> ACPI: TCPA 7DF360C0, 0034 (r1 INTEL  TBLOEMID       
> 1 MSFT       97)
> ACPI: WDDT 7DF360F4, 0040 (r1 INTEL  OEMWDDT        
> 1 INTL  2002026)
> ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408
> ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
> Processor #0 15:4 APIC version 20
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
> Processor #1 15:4 APIC version 20
> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
> ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000]
> gsi_base[0])
> IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address
> 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl
> dfl)
> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high
> level)
> ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
> ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
> ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
> Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 I/O APICs
> Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
> Allocating PCI resources starting at 80000000 (gap:
> 7e000000:62000000)
> Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 511857
> Kernel command line: ro
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
> mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
> mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
> Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
> Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support...
> done.
> Initializing CPU#0
> CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c077c000 soft=c075c000
> PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384
> bytes)
> Detected 3000.162 MHz processor.
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7,
> 524288 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6,
> 262144 bytes)
> Memory: 2037568k/2063548k available (2066k kernel
> code, 24768k reserved, 1092k
> data, 240k init, 1146044k highmem) virtual kernel
> memory layout:
>     fixmap  : 0xffc56000 - 0xfffff000   (3748 kB)
>     pkmap   : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000   (4096 kB)
>     vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000   ( 111 MB)
>     lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000   ( 896 MB)
>       .init : 0xc071b000 - 0xc0757000   ( 240 kB)
>       .data : 0xc0604a4a - 0xc0715cb4   (1092 kB)
>       .text : 0xc0400000 - 0xc0604a4a   (2066 kB)
> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even
> in supervisor mode... Ok.
> Calibrating delay using timer specific routine..
> 6003.17 BogoMIPS (lpj=3001588)
> Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
> SELinux:  Initializing.
> SELinux:  Starting in permissive mode
> selinux_register_security:  Registering secondary
> module capability
> Capability LSM initialized as secondary
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
> CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000
> 00000000 00000000 0000641d
> 00000000 00000000 monitor/mwait feature present.
> using mwait in idle threads.
> CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
> CPU: L2 cache: 1024K
> CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
> 
=== message truncated ===

This is an easy one.  Frank.  Put in a data cd/audio
cd in it and reboot.  Your other drive should be
there! It is not the prettiest solution, but it has
worked for me with Rawhide.   

Regards,

Antonio


 
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