I'm not sure if this has been asked already, but what shows up during boot concerning you're ide devices? do dmesg|less and see what it says. for hdc it'll show the atached ide-cdrom driver and the speed of the drive. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Nickelson" <roylee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 9:24 PM Subject: Re: cdrom drive not working > hi, > then according to what you say my cdrom drive should be hdc. it is the > first device on the second controler. the other device on that > controler is the zip drive and it is hdd. The hard drive is by itself. > > here is the fstab file > > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults > 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults > 1 2 > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 > 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults > 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults > 0 0 > none /sys sysfs defaults > 0 0 > /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults > 0 0 > > > Roy > On > Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Luke Davis wrote: > > /dev/cdrom, is usually a link to /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, etc.. > What is the device ID of your hard drive, and how many hard drives do you > have? > > The first IDE drive, on controller 0, (the primary), should be: /dev/hda. > The secondary should be: /dev/hdb. > The primary on the second controller (controller 1), should be: hdc. > and so on. > > In fact, maybe you could send us a copy of /etc/fstab. > > Luke > > > On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Roy Nickelson wrote: > > > hi, > > how would I determine this, I thought it was cdrom that is all i have > > known it as under linux. > > > > RoyOn Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Luke Davis wrote: > > > > What is its device name? That is: HDa, HDB, HDC, HDD, SDA, SDB, etc.? > > > > > > On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Roy Nickelson wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I am using fedora and my cd rom drive doesn't work. The drive works in > > > windows and it worked in redhat9 and for the installation of fedora. Iget > > > an error that says /dev/cdrom doesn't exist. > > > Do you have any sugestions on how to fix this? > > > Roy > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
