-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Neil wrote:
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:12 PM, John R. Sowden
wrote: I have 2 non-identical emachines, both running Suse 10.3, both have a dvd drive that reads/writes to dvd-ram. On 1 machine I saved some files on a dvd-ram media to take to work. When I installed the media in the second machine, it does not recognize the drive. Both of these are new (< 6 months old), so they are SATA drives, not IDE. Installing a cd in the second computer does not get a response. I tried fdisk /dev/sdb, sdc, sdd, all with 'unable to access drive'. /dev/sda worked fine.
Thoughts? John
sda is most probably your harddisk. Can you check wether /dev/cdrom exist (an if applicable, how many there are) If it exists, could you use ls -l (console) to check where it links to (/dev/cdrom is a link to the first cdrom like device found) While I probably can not help you solve the problem, I can help the people who can help you with detecting the problem.
Neil
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As root enter hwinfo --cdrom at command line ... note results... usually a bit quicker than using YasT but the alternative is to go to YaST hardware->hardware info. To find out whether a mount point is defined for the device check /etc/fstab - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIAxA/asN0sSnLmgIRAoyDAKC35gneU0gYoX/q2JxV91T606RmlACggtQm M7XHri/aiPUmNQqHAE2qk3s= =MKEa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org