Replacing CD Drive with DVD drive

[Keith Clark]

> What is the brand & model of the DVD reader (or is it a DVD burner) 
> which you are installing?
> 
> What is the brand etc of the CDROM you are replacing?
> 

DVD is an HP Lightscribe
CD is a Argus


> 
> Hold on here...we are getting into terminology hassles here....
> 
> "DVD is still CS (cable select) on its own cable as master": why do you 
> say it's "master"? Because it is at the end of theribbon cable?
> 

DVD is master because the label on the cable says so, as does the BIOS.
It sees the drive fine.

> "HD is Master......": similar question- it is Master because the jumper 
> is set to Master - and not CS - or it is CS and sitting at the end of 
> the cable?
> 

HD is Master because the label on the cable says so as well.  The BIOS
also sees the drive fine.

> It would be a lot easier if BOTH devices were configured the same - put 
> BOTH as MASTER, on their own indivudual cables, using the* jumpers*. 
> This will eliminate a variable out the equation.
> 
> > Still it does not see the DVD
> >    
> 
> OK - a big question: is the CD or DVD you are putting into the drive a 
> blank or does it have data/movie on it?

DVD has a movie DVD in it.

> 
> 
> (Another big queston: what happens when you put back the CDROM with 
> EXACTLY same settings as you now have on the DVD and HD? Trying to see 
> if the DVD unit is a bummer and needs to be taken back to the store.)
> 
> 

DVD drive is fine.  It works on another machine fine.  That machine runs
Ubuntu 10.04 as well.

Keith