I don't know if it would work or not, but I would disconnect the power and ribbon cable on the cd. Then boot up. When it reboots hopefully the computer will recognizes the change in the hardware. Save the configuration. Shutdown the computer reconnect the cables and see if it autodetects the cd and reinstalls itself properly. Again, I don't know if this would work but it might be worth a try.
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 21:34, Wayne Schuller wrote:
hi,
I foolishly deleted /dev/sr0, and lost access to my cd burner.
I googled around and recreated the device by doing: mknod /dev/sr0 b 11 0
I then recreated the symbolic cdrom link: ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom
But I cannot mount the cdrom anymore... I get a bunch of strange kernel errors on /var/log/messages: Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 64 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 487940 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 486916 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 486692 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 487932 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 486908 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 486684 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 487340 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 486316 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 486092 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 487332 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 486308 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 486084 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 400384 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 399360 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 399136 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 400376 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 399352 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 399128 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 399784 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 398760 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 398536 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 399776 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 398752 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 398528 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 1248 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 1024 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: UDF-fs: No partition found (1) Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 64 Dec 3 15:30:39 toottoot kernel: isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=0b:00, iso_blknum=16, block=16
For what it is worth, my /etc/fstab contains: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
and /dev/scd0 is: [schuller@toottoot schuller]$ ls /dev/scd0 brw-rw-- 1 root disk 11, 0 Sep 15 23:40 /dev/scd0
When I boot up, it detects the cdrom as normal though: Dec 3 15:20:01 toottoot kernel: hdd: attached ide-scsi driver. Dec 3 15:20:01 toottoot kernel: scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Dec 3 15:20:01 toottoot kernel: Vendor: CyberDrv Model: CW038D CD-R/RW Rev: 120C Dec 3 15:20:01 toottoot kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Dec 3 15:20:01 toottoot kernel: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Dec 3 15:20:01 toottoot kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Dec 3 15:20:01 toottoot kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Can anyone help? I can't find any help on google.
I don't want to reinstall the whole OS just to get the cd working.
thanks, wayne