[wplug] disappearing cdrom on a laptop.

[Evan DiBiase]

John,

On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 09:25  AM, John 'el asesino del pollo' 
Harrold wrote:

> 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?

I'm not entirely sure what it could be (others with more laptop 
experience probably do), but it would be helpful to see what sort of 
output the "dmesg" command is giving you on the laptop. Could you send 
it to the list?

-Evan