[Techtalk] dvd-rom problems

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Monday 05 April 2004 20:16, tiera wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm having trouble with a dvd-rom. We bought a new computer (an asus
> pundit) and to that we bought a dvd-rom (asus dvd-e166p1). I installed
> Fedora Core 1 on it yesterday, from cd, without a problem. And now I
> can't use the dvd-rom anymore. There's one harddrive in the computer
> and that's /dev/hdb, so I thought the dvd-rom would be /dev/hda then.
> But there's nothing there. I've looked through /var/log/messages and
> the output from dmesg but it doesn't say anything about a dvd
> anywhere. Am I missing something really obvious? I thought the drive
> would be automatically detected? I mean, it worked during
> installation and the bios finds it correctly.

Care to post the output of dmesg and /boot/grub/menu.lst (or grub.conf ... I 
think RH changed the name)?

It may be that the ide-scsi driver is being used and so it now appears as a 
scsi device.

Rasjid.

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