OT: lost my cd/dvd drives

[Duncan Lithgow]

On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 21:53 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: 
> That test proves that your cd drives and cables are fine. Two options 
> left: your secondary IDE controller has gone to the big silicon 
> factory in the sky, or it's disabled in the BIOS (usually 2nd or 3rd 
> screen)
> 
> What is your output from:
> sudo lspci | grep -i ide
duncan at ubuntu:~$ sudo lspci | grep -i ide
Password:
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra
ATA 100 Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB (ICH5) Serial ATA 150
Storage Controller (rev 02)

Does '0000:00:1f.2' with 'Serial ATA' mean it's only listening for
SATA? 

> sudo dmesg | grep -i ide
duncan at ubuntu:~$ sudo dmesg | grep -i ide
[4294672.114000] PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
[4294672.114000] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
[4294673.831000] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision:
7.00alpha2
[4294673.831000] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes;
override with idebus=xx
[4294673.831000] ACPI: bus type ide registered
[4294674.004000] ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
[4294674.004000]     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings:
hda:DMA, hdb:pio
[4294674.004000] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[4294674.881000] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[4294674.881000] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[4294675.394000] Probing IDE interface ide2...
[4294675.906000] Probing IDE interface ide3...
[4294676.418000] Probing IDE interface ide4...
[4294676.930000] Probing IDE interface ide5...
[4294677.461000]  /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 < p5 p6 p7
p8 p9 p10 p11 > p4
[4294678.200000] eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'.

> If your second controller (is it onboard?) is b0rked, then you can 
> plug in a regular controller card. They are not expensive.
If by second controller you mean the socket marked IDE2, then yes, it's onboard. Good point, nice to know that I'm unlikely to need to replace the main board.

Duncan
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Duncan Lithgow <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk>
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