Fwd: Re: 3rd ide master prob

[James Takac]

On Tuesday 31 July 2007 11:31:03 Rashkae wrote:
> James Takac wrote:
> > Hi David
> >
> > My fstab file is as follows
> >
> > # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> > #
> > # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> > proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> > # /dev/sda3
> > UUID=592ab5d4-7f72-4008-b18a-8d3e90db9318 /               ext3
> > defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> > # /dev/sda5
> > UUID=831fe505-c93a-47d1-ac07-08e024e0cf9f none            swap
> > sw              0       0
> > /dev/hda        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
> >
> > # Generated by Automatix
> > /dev/sda1   /media/sda1   vfat    iocharset=utf8,umask=000  0    0
> > /dev/sda2   /media/sda2   ntfs-3g  defaults,locale=en_US.utf8    0    0
> > ## End of Automatix mounted partitions
> >
> > think I should try hdc instead of hda?
>
> I think you should try /dev/cdrom, if it's there.  The udev scripts
> should link that to whatever device they find an optical drive on.  If
> you don't  have the /dev/cdrom, that might be another problem entirely.

Ok, have determined that ubuntu is not detecting the drive at all. Not seen 
any re a workaround as of yet. Anyone know where I can locate the script 
which does the hardware detection in feisty? Maybe can compare the difference 
between live cd and updated version and a clue for a workaround?

James