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