2008/4/29 Lanny Marcus lannyma@gmail.com:
[root@dell1602 ~]# grep ^hdc /var/log/dmesg hdc: DV-516D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ATAPI 50X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(100) [root@dell1602 ~]#
Good(-ish). The optical device is there but it's an old combo CD/DVD-ROM drive.
Then looked at the symbolic links? ls -l /dev/ | grep hdc
[root@dell1602 ~]# ls -l /dev/ | grep hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 29 12:30 cdrom-hdc -> hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 29 12:30 dvd -> hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 29 12:30 dvd-hdc -> hdc brw------- 1 lanny disk 22, 0 Apr 29 12:30 hdc [root@dell1602 ~]#
Good. That's o.k. also.
I just updated the hal rpm on the box with the problem and I did a restart of the box after that.
hald (pid 2069) is running...
Good, again.
I don't know if this will be any use - http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/HAL
Alan: I will check that out! Thanks much! Lanny
Did I see that you are still running a very out of date kernel? Of the 2.6.18-8.m.n series? Any particular reason?
Alan.