2008/4/29 Lanny Marcus <lannyma at gmail.com>: > [root at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 Did I see that you are still running a very out of date kernel?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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080429/fb10a8f2/attachment-0005.html>