Re: CD Drive not being recognized



In message <43b554be25ced1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
"Edward S. Baiz Jr." <edbaizjr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I recently installed a new hard drive and a new CD-DVD drive into my system. I
> also have a CD-Rom drive installed. It is this drive that is not being seen by
> Linux. Things were fine with this drive until I installed the new CD-DVD
> drive. Would I have to adjust my fstab file? Could I just use the "mount"
> command? That would seem to me to be a solution.
>

Have you checked whether the BIOS can see these drives? I ask because you
probably had two masters, and the new drives may well be set as master. One
now needs to be slave.

You probably knew that anyway, if so, sorry for being too obvious.

--
Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
alan.adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.nckc.org.uk/
.



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