no cd on startup

[alfred]

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Daly <tom_d at chebucto.ns.ca>
Reply-to: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
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To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: no cd on startup
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:19:53 -0400
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I've had this question up on the Kubuntu forum for a couple of days now, 
with lots of readers, but no takers ...

9.04 / K4.3.2
I have a cd drive as primary slave, burner as secondary master

for many  many months, on startup the Kubuntu logo and blue progress bar 
show up then gag at about 1/3 progress.  It then flips to cli, reports 
that the burner doesn't exist, then continues on, gui appears and away 
we go.

quite by chance I've discovered that if I have cd's in both drives on 
startup, there is no gag, no cli break, and the start goes through in 
about half the time. (I've tried this with a cd in one or the other, but 
that doesn't work- has to be in both)

so I'm assuming there's something going on with those devices not being 
mounted during startup?? and that's there's something I can do to fix it??

question for all:  what is the something that I can do??
[newb-alert]

Hi:
Things might work better if you have the cd Drive as Secondary Master,
and the burner as Secondary Slave. 

when you start up with this it will not hick-up!

If the Burner and the Cd drive are both from the same company then try
using just the Burner as the Secondary Master, with no Slave at all, If
you do get a hick-up!

Over time I found this works very well, and you don't need CD's or Dvd's
in the drives. So you have one IDE or Sata channel of two for Disk
Drives and the other Channel of two for Optical Drives.

Alfred!

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