On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 06:02:11 -0600 "Steven P. Ulrick" <spu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In closing, the actual drive that I want to use is a brand new (and I > suspect, not defective, as the problem is the same with whatever drive > I use) Artec Super 56X, and I have tried all the drives I've > experimented with (the Burner, and whichever of the three CD-ROM's) as > both the master AND the slave (making sure the jumpers were set > correctly.) My Bios always detected the drives I was experimenting > with as whatever I set the jumpers at, master or slave. And like I > said, they are both functional in Windows XP, but when I try them in > Red Hat 8, Red Hat only picks up one of them. Oh yeah, when I only > have one hooked up, it is detected as SCSI (emulated, of course, as > these drives are all IDE), but when both are hooked up, it says there > are none that have SCSI emulation enabled (this information was gotten > from kcontrol | information | SCSI) > I just tried another experiment, and when I tried to mount > /dev/cdrom, > it said it wasn't a valid block device. The problem is, if I were to > disconnect the slave drive, and reboot, all of a sudden it would > become a valid block device. If I'm wrong on that last point, I'll > send a correction as soon as possible. > Another thing I remembered, when I first got the new computer, and I > tried to install Red Hat 8 with what turned out to be a bad CD-ROM > drive, it wouldn't install. When I removed the bad CD-ROM drive, I > was able to install Red Hat 8. The strange thing is that I wasn't > using the bad drive to install Red Hat, I was using my Burner, as I > had already had suspicions about that old CD-ROM drive. But it gets > stranger: with that same CD-ROM drive connected that kept me from > installing Red Hat 8, I was able to install with absolutely no > difficulty, Red Hat 7.1, and mabye 7.2 If that sound confusing, then > I think I explained it correctly :( Hello, again :) I just had an idea that I wanted to try, so here is the results: all the testing reflected in my original posting, had only one thing in common - the Memorex 52X CD-R/CD-RW drive. So I took that drive out, and put in another drive, and I had exactly the same results: the Bios picked up everything, the Red Hat boot messages recognized both CD drives, but when I went to mount /dev/cdrom, which is the only cd-related entry that I ever have (other than /dev/cdrom1 when things are working the way they should) I was told that /dev/cdrom was not a valid block device. Well that's all I have for now :) Steven P. Ulrick -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
