On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 22:32 +1200, motivated wrote: > is it on the ide bus .... good question > > I'm no computer guru, but the cdrom appears to plugged into the motherboard > with a separate strap to the hd. I did notice that the sound had a X on the > speaker icon, and the sound cable is now flopping around in the case. > > The cdrom was used to install this current version of Mandrake. Sometime > after the install the draw decided it didnt want to open, but I fixed that. > > Hope that helps > PS I have my hammer handy ;)
ahhh percussive maintenance, my favourite kind! I am a bit stumped on your cd. It should be there I guess - check that cable again, the one from the cd to the motherboard (broad flat cable with 40 connectors). There should be a similar cable to the hard drive, if they are plugged into different headers on the motherboard, then the cd is likely to be on the secondary ide channel and the cdrom will be either /dev/hdc (master) or /dev/hdd (slave). if they are on the same header and cable then they are probably both on the primary ide channel with the HDD as /dev/hda and the cdrom as /dev/hdb. Now as we couldn't find it with dmesg try the following: grep -i cd /proc/ide/* -r (translation search (grep) through all the files under the directory /proc/ide for the string "cd" and don't worry about upper/lower case (-i)) the files under /proc are a window into what the kernel is seeing and doing. If you don't find anything interesting there, try booting the machine with a bootable cd-rom in the drive (like the first mandrake cd) and see if the damn thing works that way! > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
