Cannot load/mount CDRom Drive

[NoOp]

On 06/21/2007 11:09 PM, Jack Bowling wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 06:50:12PM -0700, NoOp wrote:
>> I know that the answer will become obvious after replies, but I simply
>> cannot get Feisty 7.04 (ubuntu-desktop 2.6.20-16-386) to find and mount
>> the CDRom for an HP XE744. I've not pulled out the CDRom drive yet to
>> find out who it is made by, but it's a 48x that works just fine under
>> Knoppix.
> <snip>
> 
> I would suspect that the kernel version is different between Knoppix and
> the latest Feisty updates. So I think that you were caught by the latest
> conversion/reversion between PATA/SATA device naming in the Feisty kernel.
> 
> What worked for me is this:
> 
> $cd /dev
> $sudo MAKEDEV -v scd-all
> 
> and then reboot so the kernel can assign the devices properly. Can't
> hurt to try this.
> 
> Jack
> 

Thanks... no joy. Looks like this might be a common problem:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/99800

I'm going to try and swap the CD-Rom drive from the test machine (where
I had the hard drive) into the HP XE744 to see if that makes any difference.