Re: 5.2 p2 won't recognize my cdrw drive

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:30:31 +0000 Matt Dawson <matt_at_mattsnetwork.co.uk> wrote:
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> On Friday 6 February 2004 10:02 am, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> > Hi
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> > I have been happily running 5.2 Release and had to reboot after
> > security notification 04:02. I recompiled the kernel and now the new
> > kernel won't go past my cdrw drive (a primary slave). The message is
> > (printed twice):
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> Again, as a temporary measure you can stop this behaviour by putting a
> CD with data on it in the LiteOn drive. Quite why this is so is beyond
> my feeble knowledge of BSD...

It worked! Simple solution, but I never needed to do this with 5.2
release. Anyway, thanks a lot. If anybody investigating this needs more
info, please let me know.

Gautam