[CentOS] Problems w/ CentOS 4.4 ....

Fri Jan 19 21:44:12 UTC 2007
William A. Mahaffey III <wam at HiWAAY.net>

Drew Weaver wrote:

>Just by simply typing google LG GSA H22N linux kernel I was able to find
>at least two people who report success using this drive on kernel 2.6.14
>and above.
>
>Ymmv
>
>-Drew
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
>Behalf Of William A. Mahaffey III
>Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 4:02 PM
>To: centos at centos.org
>Subject: [CentOS] Problems w/ CentOS 4.4 ....
>
>
>.... I just installed CentOS 4.4 yesterday P.M., on my 2.4 GHz P4 box,
>Foxconn i865 mbd, 2 GB DDR400 RAM (4 X 512 MB), 1 X 20 GB HDD (hda), 1 X
>160 GB HDD (hdb), 1 X LG GSA H22N DVD reader/burner (hdc), 1 X 400 GB
>HDD (hdd), Coolmax CP500-T PSU. I wiped SuSE 9.2 off of the 20 GB drive
>& installed CentOS. The other 2 drives were already ext3 FS & will be
>mounted as /home & /work when I get everything sorted out & going. The
>install went smoothly, I installed as a server, plus added all of the
>developement stuff. When I removed the DVD & rebooted, everything was
>AOK, except that the booted OS apparently didn't see the DVD drive. When
>I put the DVD back in to add some more software, it never automounted, &
>I never could get it manually mounted. I pored through dmesg output (&
>posted to other lists), but no luck. I eventually came up with the
>following question: Since this is a relatively new burner, could it be
>that it is unsupported under CentOS 4.4 ? I also googled & searched the
>archives (manually) this A.M., but no say either way. Sooooooooo: what
>did I mess up so that CentOS 4.4 can't see the DVD drive that I used to
>install it :-) ? Thanks in advance for your time.
>
>  
>

Rats !!!! I guess I over-googled, I had 'CentOS 4.4' in there as well, 
only got 8 hits, none pertinent. Any idea what might cause this behavior 
(no /dev/hdc or /dev/cdrom present, only mention of hdc in dmesg output 
is 1 line referring to IDE1 channel, & this only minutes after install 
from that drive) ? Thanks in advance ....

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