Re: vmware 2.0.3, kernel 2.4.0 and a cdrom

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Mon Jan 15 2001 - 16:15:53 EST

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On Sun, Jan 14 2001, Martin Maciaszek wrote:
> Since I installed Kernel 2.4.0 VMware is no longer able to
> recognize my cdrom drive. VMware shows a dialog box on power up
> with following content:
> [...]
> CDROM: '/dev/scd0' exists, but does not appear tobe a CDROM device.
>
> Error connecting the CDROM device
> [...]
>
> At the same time my syslog records the following message:
> Jan 13 21:49:57 nexus kernel: sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
>
> I tried 2.2.18 and VMware recognized the cdrom drive.

Could you try with this patch, so maybe we can get some hints as to what
is going on?

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* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* SuSE Labs

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