[wplug] disappearing cdrom on a laptop.

[John 'el asesino del pollo' Harrold]

howdy.

i'm kind of confused on this one. i have (in my posession)  this new
laptop: gateway 120. i installed linux  and xp on it. while xp was
installed via the cdrom, i believe i installed linux over the network.
linux cannot find the cdrom drive, but i don't recall if i ever used the
cdrom drive under linux. linux is now reporting that it cannot stat
/dev/cdrom at startup. i guess it's possible the symlink to the device was
deleted. i don't believe it was doing this before. this is some other info
that might be useful:

 - it's running redhat 7.3
 - i can see the contents of the cd from windows xp
 - i can boot off the cdrom drive
 - if i boot off a redhat install floppy i cannot see the cdrom drive

the laptop detaches from the cdrom, floppy, etc like a docking station. and
the problems mentioned above all occurred with the drives attached from
boot time.

i've used modprobe to install the ide-cd module. then i tried to mount any
devices i thought would be the cdrom: hdb, hdc and hdd. is it possible that
the cdrom isn't an ide device? any thought on what it would be?


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