Re: [SLE] dvd not detected(SOLVED)

From: it clown (suse_at_mailbox.co.za)
Date: 06/18/05

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Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:50:57 +0200

    I got it working by swoping the cdrw/dvd around with the
    writer. Now my writer is slave and cdrw/dvd is master.

    Why did i have to do that to get it working? Windows XP had
    no problems at all.

    On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:42:55 +0200
     "it clown" <suse@mailbox.co.za> wrote:
    > Hi All,
    >
    > I have a MSI VIA KM400A mother board with sata support. I
    > have 2 ATA drives connected to IDE0, 2 cdrom drives
    > connected to IDE1 and 1 SATA drive. I am using suse 9.1.
    >
    > The problem is my dvd writer does not get detected. The
    > only way for me to get the dvd writer detected is to boot
    > off the 9.1 dvd from the dvd writer -> boot from hard
    > drive.
    >
    > in /proc/ide
    >
    > i see the links to the hard drives and cdrom drives but
    > the
    > link to the dvd writer is not there. But when i boot off
    > the dvd it will be created. What creates the ide under
    > proc?
    >
    > I also ran hwinfo and i get the following for my dvd
    > write:
    >
    > 43: IDE 06.0: 10602 CD-ROM (DVD-RAM)
    > [Created at block.194]
    > Unique ID: _jAI.4o0wexCLGnD
    > Parent ID: rKvl.mcsZ0a690T4
    > SysFS ID: /block/hdg
    > SysFS BusID: 3.0
    > SysFS Device Link:
    > /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0f.1/ide3/3.0
    > Hardware Class: cdrom
    > Model: "HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4120B"
    > Vendor: "HL-DT-ST"
    > Device: "DVDRAM GSA-4120B"
    > Revision: "A100"
    > Serial ID: "K3G45S25406"
    > Driver: "VIA IDE", "ide-cdrom"
    > Device File: /dev/by-path/pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-1:0
    > Device Files: /dev/hdg,
    > /dev/by-path/pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-1:0,
    > /dev/by-id/HL-DT-ST_DVDRAM_GSA-4120_K3G45S2540
    > Device Number: block 34:0
    > Features: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVDRAM
    > Size: 8059968 sectors a 512 bytes
    > Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=no, need=no,
    > active=unknown
    > Attached to: #19 (IDE interface)
    >
    >
    > Why wont my dvd writer get detected when booting normaly?
    >
    > Thanks
    > Regards
    >
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