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.

Oh, all my drive are seen. The DVD-CD drive is IDE and is set to slave. My
primary HD is also IDE and is set to "Master". The other drives are SCSI
(external drive that Linux boots from, the CD-ROM drive and a 2 gig Jaz drive).


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Edward S. Baiz Jr.
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