Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

["it clown" <suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I have a MSI VIA KM400A mother board with sata support. I
have 2 ATA drives connected to IDE0, 2 cdrom drives
connected to IDE1 and 1 SATA drive. I am using suse 9.1.

The problem is my dvd writer does not get detected. The
only way for me to get the dvd writer detected is to boot
off the 9.1 dvd from the dvd writer -> boot from hard
drive.

in /proc/ide

i see the links to the hard drives and cdrom drives but the
link to the dvd writer is not there. But when i boot off
the dvd it will be created. What creates the ide under
proc?

I also ran hwinfo and i get the following for my dvd write:

43: IDE 06.0: 10602 CD-ROM (DVD-RAM)
  [Created at block.194]
  Unique ID: _jAI.4o0wexCLGnD
  Parent ID: rKvl.mcsZ0a690T4
  SysFS ID: /block/hdg
  SysFS BusID: 3.0
  SysFS Device Link:
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0f.1/ide3/3.0
  Hardware Class: cdrom
  Model: "HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4120B"
  Vendor: "HL-DT-ST"
  Device: "DVDRAM GSA-4120B"
  Revision: "A100"
  Serial ID: "K3G45S25406"
  Driver: "VIA IDE", "ide-cdrom"
  Device File: /dev/by-path/pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-1:0
  Device Files: /dev/hdg,
/dev/by-path/pci-0000:00:0f.1-ide-1:0,
/dev/by-id/HL-DT-ST_DVDRAM_GSA-4120_K3G45S2540
  Device Number: block 34:0
  Features: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVDRAM
  Size: 8059968 sectors a 512 bytes
  Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=no, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #19 (IDE interface)


Why wont my dvd writer get detected when booting normaly?

Thanks
Regards
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