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I have discovered that I can use the eject button on the drive itself, and it all works fine, but if i use the button on the case, it opens, but the drive will not close using this button, this seems to confuse mdk, as is sometimes reported when I shutdown, I then lose the drive and get the problems described above. xp did not have this problem before I installed mdk10, and neither did mdk 9. I suppose that this is probably a pretty specific case/OS problem, but if anyone has any suggestions? Many thanks to all who answered.

ll /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd: brw------- 1 wellst cdrom 22, 64 Jan 1 1970 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/

HI io333, sounds possible, ( i know nothing about bios stuff). can dma be set in the bios (not at my machine at the moment), would that help?

ls -lh /dev/hdd: lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Jul 7 22:29 /dev/hdd -> ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd

I could see it originally, but after having 'lost' the drive after boot up several times, it's not there at all now. I have only one dvd-cd drive btw. Many thanks for the help. /etc/fstab: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda10 /archive ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt/removable auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,exec 0 0 /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt/removable2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,exec 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /etc/lilo.conf: # File generated by DrakX/drakboot # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file boot=/dev/hda default="windows" prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux" root=/dev/hda6 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux-nonfb" root=/dev/hda6 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount acpi=ht" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label="failsafe" root=/dev/hda6 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="failsafe acpi=ht devfs=nomount" read-only other=/dev/hda1 label="windows" table=/dev/hda ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi, I did not have a problem with mdk 9.1 or 9.2, I even rolled back to 9.2, twice, and the problems disappeared, on xp too, this seems to point to a problem with mdk 10, and my cd drive, I say 'seems' as I cannot see any other conclusion; three separate times I had mdk 10 installed, three times I had problems seeing my drive, in both xp and mdk, take mdk 10 away, the problem goes! I have no idea what is happening, I'm just trying to describe the problems. I'm pretty sure that all users have access to the burner, but burning is not the problem yet, I can't even see the drive now! (even as root). Another thing is that it just hangs when I try to explicitly mount it. I've give the jumper settting a go tonight, thanks.

Hi, I have disabled P&P, but no difference. mdk now refuses to see the dvd drive at all (this happend before the p&p change). In mdk I can press the eject button on the box and the drive ejects, but it then ignores all presses, i.e. it will not close, I have to close it but using the button on the drive itself. This seems to confuse mdk, I viewed the extended info when rebooting, and sometimes it reports that the drive appears confused, other times it has problems unmounting as it thinks the drive is busy. I then have problems in XP also, this did not happen when I had mdk 9.2 and I have rolled back and the problems have dissapeared, it sounds mad but there you go, maybe the drive gets into some kind of state that xp can deal with but mdk has problems with?

I haven't got hdd= on mdk 10, I have: devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent I have now got just XP and mdk 10, and I have tried the bios update, but I am again having problems in both XP and mdk 10, I think this points very strongly to mdk 10 causing the problems. Can anyone tell me, is it possible for something to be getting set in the dvd firmware or the bios (something like this must be happening for the problems to happen after a reboot across OS's)?

Hi illogic-al I have hdd=ide-scsi in the mdk 9 params, but 10 doesn't use the scsi frig does it, so i presume that this wouldn't make sense for booting up 10? Hi SK_pt, I have upgraded my bios, but there is another upgrade I will try tonight. I have removed 10 once again, and run the config tool on 9, and guess what, my dvd/cd drive works fine again!!!!!! I think reduces the likelihood of it being a hardware problem, or coincidence.

Thanks for replying. I have kind of ruled out coincidence; uninstalling 10 and reinstalling 9.2 seemed to fix the problems. Possibly hardware; I tried reseating the connectors, but this did not help, it may be the drive itself, but it doese work OK on XP, with just 9.2 or 10 installed. One thing that did occur to me were the boot params set up by Lilo, but I know nothing about these, could someone point me to some help/offer some? Or maybe the fact that 9 uses scsi emulation and 10 doesn't? Sarissi, I have a cover disk for mdk 10 ce, can you tell me what is the powerpack that you mention all about?

MSI Barebones 651 P4 2.8 NEC 2500a dvd burner O/S triple boot: Win XP SP1 Mandrake 9.2 Mandrake 10 Mandrake 10 will not see my dvd drive. Initially I installed mdk 10 alongside winXP as a dual boot machine, when I booted into mdk 10 sometimes it would see my dvd drive sometimes it wouldn't, but the wierd thing was it seemed to affect winXP too, which sometimes also would not see the dvd drive, and sometimes it would see it as a cd drive only! Previously I had dual boot with winXP and mdk 9.2, this worked fine, so I rolled back to this version, and installed mkd 10 alongside, now winxp, mdk 9.2, and mdk 10 are ALL having problems seeing my dvd!!!!!!!!! How can mdk 10 mess it up for all systems, what can I do? If you do not have any answer to this, an alternative would be for me to use only mdk 9.2, but I need dvd burning, so I would like to update my k3b, this has been very difficult due to dependancies, it seems that maybe the whole of kde needs updating, can someone send some instructions on this please? Many thnaks.