FYI For anybody else who has this problem. One of the drive icons, the original one disappeared. The other one _2 wouldn't work. I right clicked it for properties and re set it to dvd writer. All is ok now. John On Sunday 09 May 2004 08:41, John wrote: > Thanks Thomas,Robin and Esbin too but I'm a bit new here for that. > > I'm still curious about the following bit: > > On Sunday 09 May 2004 04:15, John wrote: > >This time I will install to the SATA's as > > separate discs but this will mean that I may well add additional IDE > > discs later. Does the system handle this. I often copy stuff across from > > old discs following an upgrade and I usually keep them for a while in > > case there is something I forgot. This means that discs come and go. Will > > the system handle this? > > As an illustration. > I just removed a scsi dvd drive and controller card from this machine. On > the next power up KDE found new hardware. This is a dvd writer on ide that > was allready there working and configured. I now have 2 on the desktop. > Will this happen each time I remove something? How can I remove the ghost > drive? Should I have just ignored the add hardware pop up if I do something > like this again? > > Regards > John > > > ___________________________________________________ > . > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.