Folks - I finany have my DVD-ROM working. I boot from the GRUB bootloader from my SuSE 9.0 installation. When I installed 9.1, I didn't install the bootloader, but cloned the SuSE 9.0 menu item in GRUB. For some reason, that didn't work! Anyway, I removed the following from the kernel line: hdc=ide-scsi hdclun=0 and when I rebooted SuSE 9.1 found the DVD-ROM and everything is working fine. Now, the question is why didn't the cloning work? It seems logical to me that it would, but I was obviously wrong. Can anyone tell me the error of my ways? ;=) Cheers, Mike Mike Pelley wrote:
I've just rebooted into SuSE 9.0 (and Fedora Core 2) and both devices work. It seems like the hardware detection isn't working correctly in SuSE 9.1 . Under SuSE 9.1 I get the following assignments:
DVD-RW uses /dev/hda with /dev/dvdrom as a symlink DVD-ROM uses /dev/sr0 with /dev/dvd as the symlink
How do I go about manually configuring SuSE 9.1 to use /dev/sr0? Something with mkdev?
Thanks, Mike
BandiPat wrote:
On Monday 14 June 2004 11:54 am, Mike Pelley wrote:
Hi All!
I just found a problem with SuSE 9.1 and my installation: I can't use the DVD-ROM on my second IDE channel. The info from the various logs and /proc is included below. I've swapped my DVD-RW on IDE0 with it, and it works fine. So, I doubt that it is the device (it burns find, too!). It shows up in the BIOS. Note the difference for IDE0 under /proc.
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Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Cheers, Mike mike at pelleys dot com
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Did you check the jumpers on the drives? One should be master, the other slave, do not use cable select on these!
Lee