Replacing CD Drive with DVD drive
Keith Clark
keithclark at k-wbookworm.com
Thu May 13 19:08:01 UTC 2010
> 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
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