[PLUG] Debian doesn't detect my DVD-Burner on my new Laptop

[Christian Bewley]

You may also need to try a different kernel. I was using 2.4.X and then 
as soon as 2.6 came out I installed the kernel and lost my wireless 
connection. Then after a few revisions of 2.6 my network card worked 
again. Try a different kernel and see if this works. Try a newer and an 
older version.
I missed the original email, so I am going off the cuff...


Turning off acpi may work or it may not. I have had good luck with it on 
HP laptops, as for Toshiba laptops, they have been a real pain. Are 
there any toshiba utils? I thought that there were some, but it has been 
so long since I have done anything with Toshiba and Linux.


Christian


Daniel Hedlund wrote:
> Robert Jeffrey Miesen wrote:
>> Hi all.
>>
>>     I recently had the misfortune of having to replace my old laptop 
>> because the costs of repairing it were too great to warrent it and 
>> purchased a new Toshiba A105-S4074. Everything works well with one 
>> exception---debian doesn't detect my DVD-Burner. I tried using 
>> 'discover' 'lshw', 'report_hw' and none of them even detect my 
>> DVD-Burner.     I'm not sure why this is, since I test-ran Knoppix v4 
>> on the floor model before I purchased the new laptop and it ran fine, 
>> reading from the DVD-Burner with no problems.
> This is very odd behavior since Knoppix is Debian-based.  Are you sure 
> that Knoppix actually detected the drive and not just did like the 
> Debian installer?
>
> I did a little bit of searching around on the Internet and it appears 
> that there are quite a few problems related to serial-ATA (SATA) based 
> CD-ROM drives.  Apparently you might try turning off ACPI support in 
> the kernel (kernel arg "acpi=off").  Some places also seem to say that 
> some chipsets require certain drivers to be detected properly.  Mostly 
> though, these tips don't seem to help anyone.  Your kernel seems new 
> enough.  I'll provide a few links to other people having similar 
> problems that you can refer to for updates, but it might be worth 
> taking this problem to the Linux kernel mailing list (especially look 
> at first link below):
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/cdrom-detect/+bug/21860
> http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/mandriva-linux-help/23081-installation-cant-detect-sata-harddrive.html 
>
> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=6811&
> http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/debian-linux-help/49509-setup-cannot-detect-cd-rom-breezy-badger-after-starting-initialisation-steps.html 
>
>
> Just to make sure before you go to the kernel list...you don't have a 
> "/dev/hdc" (or equiv.) listed, correct?  If you do, double check 
> ripping an ISO or something first ("dd if=/dev/hdc of=test.iso).
>
> Also, double-check the kernel bootup messages to see if your CD-writer 
> is mentioned anywhere in there; it might present an error or warning 
> message about it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Daniel Hedlund
> daniel at digitree.org
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