On Sunday 04 April 2004 07:44 am, Colin Murphy wrote:
On my SUSE 9.0 box I had a DVD-ROM drive and a separate CD-RW drive, both IDE devices. With them I have been able to watch DVDs and write CDs. The DVD was on /dev/hdb and the CDRW was on /dev/hdc.
Recently I swapped these out for a single DVD-RW drive, an NEC 2500A, again an IDE drive. It is now on /dev/hdb.
The drive will mount and read CDs and DVDs but I can not get any of the GUI burning packages to recognise it as a writer, let alone write a CD to it. I am confident that the drive is working because, to test it, I did a install of Mandy10 on the same machine as a dual boot and it works without problem. [...] Thanks in advance. -- Colin@SpudULike.me.uk
Colin, First thing to do is put the new drive on the IDE-1 channel as master. One should never add a cdrom drive to the same channel as their hard drive. There are many reasons for not doing that, which I won't go into now. Your previous cdrw drive was hdc, as you pointed out, so all the references to a burner in /dev are for that drive. I suspect if you change the dvdrw to hdc, your programs will again see a drive. If that doesn't work, then there are some other things that might be needed. You may have to manually add your fstab entries, but you will at least have the hardware problem straight. Lee -- --- KMail v1.6.1 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...