Re: CD Drive not being recognized

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:42:32 +0100 (MET), 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.
>
Are all drives seen in the output of dmesg? You might need to set the
master/slave/CS jumpers according to how the drives are connected.
(You didn't say whether these drives were IDE, SCSI, SATA, USB, or
whatever.)


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