[ale] Debian 2.6.8/Plextor dvd help please

[Geoffrey]

Jim Seymour wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Just another thought on this problem. This is a Debian Sarge system 
> running kernel 2.6.8 on an Asus A7n8x motherboard. The only ide
> module I see loading is the ide-core module. Does this module support
> the nForce2 chipset? The only reference to the ide system in
> /var/log/messages is:
> 
> c  7 13:27:32 localhost kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver 
> Revision: 7.00alpha2 Dec  7 13:27:32 localhost kernel: ide: Assuming
> 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> 
> In the bios I can see the cdrom drive identified correctly as a ATA
> 33 Plextor DVD. Just wanting to check out the easy fixes before
> swapping drives, etc.

Try

	modprobe ide_cd

and possibly

	modprobe cdrom

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey