[wplug] disappearing cdrom on a laptop.

[harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu]

Sometime in July John S. Post assaulted keyboard and produced...

|John,
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|I am also running redhat 7.3 on a laptop.
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|To answer your first question... 
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|I conclude my cdrom is an ide device 
|because when I type the command:
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|cat /proc/ide/ide0/hdb/driver 
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|I get the following response:
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|ide-cdrom version 4.59
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|- John S. Post

that's the weird thing, in /proc/ide/ide0 only hba exsists. perhaps gateway
is using a  proprietary interface, but i kinda doubt it. it's just cheaper
now to make it ide. i have a strange feeling it has something to do with
the docking station. all of the other features i've tried with the docking
station (floppy, network, etc) work. it's just the cdrom.


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