On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:28, Wesley Parish wrote: > On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:04, you wrote: > > Wesley Parish wrote: > > > Would that be the suggested thing to do for a motherboard that refuses > > > to recognise my new DVD/CDRW? > > > > The Bios or the operating system you are running on it? > > > > I know that IDE HDD detection in the Bios doesn't detect CD drives, what > > does the OS detect? > > Linux doesn't detect the DVD/CDRW; I suspect that's because I haven't got > the appropriate driver.
err....driver? you don't have ide in your kernel? > The BIOS doesn't either, and I've tried it with > two of the most likely options. I struck this problem with a box i bought last year (ie cd not detected). I couldn't work out wheteher it was faulty old drives or a bios problem. I eventually found one that worked.
