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[sergio at mdk sergio]$ ls -la /dev/dvd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Dec 10 06:17 dvd-> hda
I remember I had to give users rw permissions on hda to access the drive.
BTW, floppy is hdb and HD is hdc
Jim Seymour wrote:
>On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 02:22:43PM -0500, Jim Seymour wrote:
>
>
>>On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 12:02:08PM -0500, Jim Seymour wrote:
>>
>>The ide connectors had not been used since this was an all scsi system
>>until I decided to upgrade to the the Plextor PX-712A. I have tried it
>>on both the primary and secondary connectors with different cables. It
>>is always correctly identified by the bios. Put the Plextor in my
>>girlfriends computer running XP on an older motherboard and it works
>>correctly.
>>
>>The cdrom or dvd drive is never seen by the kernel when booting. It does
>>load drivers for the ide and cdrom however. I put her plain ide cdrom in
>>my computer as a secondary master by itself and get the same results as
>>the Plextor.....nothing. It is also correctly identified by the bios.
>>
>>I have tried setting idebus=66, noapic and acpi=off for kernel
>>parameters with no change in the outcome. If the ide interface is bad on
>>the board, then why does it identify the drive correctly? Googling has
>>not turned up anybody having ide problems with this board. Any more
>>ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>
>Okay a minor update here. Someone had mentioned booting the system with
>a Knopix cd to see if that worked. I don't have that however I do have a
>Red Hat 7.3 set. The system does boot and read the install cd just fine.
>It is identified as hdc. So to me this means an issue with something
>being loaded or not loaded under kernel 2.6.8 on this box. What all
>modules should I see loaded for the ide system of this Asus A7N8X-X?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jim Seymour
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