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.)

When the systems boots are drives are seen. The CD-DVD drive is IDE and is set
to "Slave". My major HD is also IDE and is set to "Master". The drive I boot
Linux from is an external SCSI drive. The CD-ROM drive is also SCSI and I have
a SCSI 2 GIG Jaz drive. Again, all are seen by the system.


--
Edward S. Baiz Jr.
(Gamer)

HADES 060: 256meg Ram - Atari Clone
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