On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:25, you wrote: > Yes - its a nasty can of worms. > > I've got a standard IDE DVDROM drive (cos it was about $15 more > expensive than a new CDROM drive) and I can't get it to play DVDs. > > The machine is a celeron 1Ghz with a budget motherboard, via chipset, > and trident graphics. The DVD is slave on the second IDE bus (/dev/hdd) > with an HP CDRW as /dev/hdc
[ ... ] > Does anyone have any advice / thoughts / etc ? I had to deal with a Dell portable over the w/e. It had its DVD drive connected on the primary ide channel, presumably because the primary chan is higher in the interrupt structure. I don't know if this is relevent info, but 'tis a fact. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
