fresh install ---blooming DVD drive not recognized AGAIN <SOLVED> now broken again.

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 19:19 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:

> Now it won't fire up Nancy Drew! I checked everything, all the 
> connectors are connected correctly. I checked the bios, no problems 
> there with regards to the drives. The harddrive is pin selected to 
> "Master", the DVD is pin selected as "slave", the 80-wire IDE connector 
> is set with the DVD in the middle and the harddrive to the end.
> 
> The DVD sees a data disk, aoutomounts it with no prob. I just checked.
> I made sure that /dev/dvd /dev/cdrom and /dev/sr0 are chowned 
> root:cdrom. I am part of that group. Could there be another point that 
> the DVD could be set to other than /dev/sr0 ? The problem must be in 
> there somewhere. Ric
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for many years now, the proper way is to use 'cable select' (CS) on all
ATA/IDE devices and let the cable/controller work it out (end is master,
inside is slave). Many BIOS/devices will fail if you try to determine
via the jumpers (master/slave). Just set everything to CS.

Craig


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