MadHattr Posted October 23, 2002 Report Share Posted October 23, 2002 Hey for some reason when i bought my new stuff for my computer 1 sony cd-rw and 1 sont DVD drive and stuff. i hooked them up with the little 2 inch or whatever wide cables. but when i restarted and stuff it would only show the master drive "sony DVD" the slave "sony CD-WR" would not show up and then when i switched the cables so that the cd-rw was master and the dvd was slave i still couldnt view the slave ?? im running a asus motherboard waith a pentium III 550 MHz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Avalanche-X Posted October 23, 2002 Report Share Posted October 23, 2002 On the back of each of the drives and make sure the one you want to be master is set on master and the one slave is set to slave. This is most likely the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitz Posted October 23, 2002 Report Share Posted October 23, 2002 Also check the motherboard bios to see if you have to set the drive type to AUTO if you want it to automatically be detected. Glitz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadHattr Posted October 24, 2002 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2002 ok so is this a physical switch or something im lookign for i will go check now if it works i will tell you all thanx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadHattr Posted October 24, 2002 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2002 wow i checked the back of the cd-rw and moved a little microchip thing and now it works but my next problem is how do i get it to work.... its a sony cd-rw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadHattr Posted October 24, 2002 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2002 OK the cd-rw drive is in and working but when i go to /mnt all is see is disk zip cdrom ? there is no cd-rom 2? i went to harddrake and it displayed my cd-rw drive but it still doesnt show its self in /mnt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 24, 2002 Report Share Posted October 24, 2002 Go to (mcc) Mandrake Control Center>Mount Points>CD Burner, and you have to tell mcc where to mount it. It can be anything ..e.g. /mnt/cdrw or /mnt/dvd. The other way is manually edit /etc/fstab and create a folder in /mnt and give the name from /etc/fstab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted October 25, 2002 Report Share Posted October 25, 2002 The above should take care of defining a mount point and creating an empty directory in /mnt for a mount point, but if you want to actually burn CDs with that new cdrw you will also have to edit the "append" line in lilo.conf which is in /etc by adding: "hdx=ide-scsi" where "x" is the drive letter for your cdrw. Your new append line for your linux boot menu entry in lilo.conf should probably look something like this: append="quiet devfs=mount hdx=ide-scsi" The reason for this edit is that all CD burners in linux have to run under scsi emulation in order to burn CDs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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