CDROM woes

From: Kevin (Kevin.Williams_at_bimart.com)
Date: 11/08/05

  • Next message: Bela Lubkin: "Re: CDROM woes" 
    Date: 7 Nov 2005 15:40:08 -0800

    Hello,

    Here is the next chapter in my ongoing fight with an IBM X206 Server. I
    finally got all my software loaded on the server and was able to trick
    the machine into giving me the IRQs I needed for a pair of Dialogic
    Cards (there is absolutly no way to reserve an IRQ or assign one to a
    PCI stol on this model server).

    Now I need to remove and reinstall the package for the dialogic cards
    since that tape I loaded was from a machine where the cards were on IRQ
    10 and the only thing I could get the new server to give me was IRQ 5.

    I removed the package just fine, but when I went to mount the cdrom, I
    got the following error:

    cannot stat '/dev/cd0' : No Such Device or Address
    CONFIG no srom devices configured: unit (0) missing

    I know that our previous Unix guy did "something" to disable the cdroms

    in the production servers so people couldn't load anything on them.

    So far I've:

    Used mkdev cdrom to remove all instances of cd drives.

    Checked /dev/*cd* to make sure all instances were gone.

    Used mkdev cdrom to add the drive

    Checked the /etc/conf/sdevice.d/srom file to verify it is set
    correctly. It is set to:

    Srom Y 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

    Checked the /etc/conf/cf.d/mscsi file to verify t is set correctly. It
    is set to:

    wd Srom 0 0 0 0

    I added Srom=wd(0,0,0,0) to my /etc/default/boot file just incase.

    When I do hwconfig, I get:

    name=kernel vec=- dma=- rel=3.2v5.0.6 kid=2000-07-27
    name=cpu vec=- dma=- unit=1 family=15
    name=cpuid vec=- dma=- unit=1 vend=GenuineIntel tfms=0:15:4:1
    name=fpu vec=13 dma=- unit=1 type=80387-compatible
    name=pci base=0xCF8 offset=0x7 vec=- dma=- am=1 sc=0 buses=5
    name=PnP vec=- dma=- nodes=0
    name=clock vec=- dma=- type=TSC/3000488846Hz
    name=serial base=0x2F8 offset=0x7 vec=3 dma=- unit=1 type=Standard
    nports=1 fifo
    =yes
    name=console vec=- dma=- unit=vga type=0 num=12 scoansi=1 scroll=50
    name=adapter base=0x3000 offset=0xFF vec=11 dma=- type=ad160 ha=0 bus=0

    id=7 fts
    =sto
    name=floppy base=0x3F2 offset=0x5 vec=6 dma=2 unit=0 type=135ds18
    name=kbmouse base=0x60 offset=0x4 vec=12 dma=- type=Keyboard|PS/2 mouse

    id=0x00

    name=parallel base=0x378 offset=0x2 vec=7 dma=- unit=0
    name=gncfd vec=- dma=- Dialogic Configuarion Driver
    name=gpio vec=- dma=- Dialogic GPIO Driver
    name=eeG0 base=0x2000 offset=0x1F vec=11 dma=- type=PRO/1000
    00:11:25:ab:70:a2
    name=dlgn vec=5 dma=- Dialogic PCI Driver, bus = 4, slot = 6
    name=dlgn vec=5 dma=- Dialogic PCI Driver, bus = 4, slot = 7
    name=tape vec=- dma=- type=S ha=0 id=14 lun=0 bus=0 ht=ad160
    name=disk vec=- dma=- type=S ha=0 id=12 lun=0 bus=0 ht=ad160
    name=Sdsk vec=- dma=- cyls=8924 hds=255 secs=63 fts=stdb
    name=disk vec=- dma=- type=S ha=0 id=13 lun=0 bus=0 ht=ad160
    name=Sdsk vec=- dma=- cyls=8924 hds=255 secs=63 fts=stdb

    Looking at this, I see no instance of the cdrom.

    When I compare the system I am working with to a lab box that does have

    the drvie working, I see a line in the hwconfig output that states:

    name=cd-rom vec=- dma=- type=IDE ctlr=pri cfg=mst dvr=Srom->wd

    I assume the guy before either deleted a file or commented the drive
    out of a file somewhere.

    Any help would be appreciated. BTW, it is an IDE cdrom, master on the
    primary channel and I am running OpenServer 5.06

    Thanks,

    Kevin

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