Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 07/05/06 13:30, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
<snip> BIOS wise hda is my primary master with hdb as the primary slave. My CDROM, which came with the machine and was Secondary master is now Secondary slave, The DVD R/RW is the Secondary Master. Hda is the Primary Master.
As Dylan mentioned,.. Thanks Dylan ../dev/cdrom and /dev/dvdrecorder are only soft links to (in your case) /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd.
When you moved the CD from master to slave, it is possible that the old link (/dev/cdrom --> /dev/hdc) was not changed. This has happened to me in the past, when I have just installed the new device without modifying the old one's data. If you had deleted and reinstalled the CDRom in Yast (maybe you can also do an edit, I don't recall), the correct link should have been created. For your configuration, you should have the following soft links in /dev:
/dev/dvdrecorder --> /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom --> /dev/hdd OK, went into Yast-> hardware->CD-ROM and saw that the links to hdc and hdd were correct ie the DVD is /dev/hdc and the CDROM is /dev/hdd.
Problem solved thanks. It was just knowing where to look, thanks to me. Out of interest which file would hold these links? I would assume somewhere in /etc/systemconfig/xxxxxx.