CD drives from the time of the ancestors do not work with 2.6 series kernels.

The easiest way to get them to work is to roll back to a 2.4 kernel.

For Mandrake this means version 9.2.

Cheers Ross Drummond

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:53, motivated wrote:

> The cdrom worked fine, but I neglected my studies and left it sitting in
> the corner for a couple of mths after installing mandrake. When I finally
> got back to it the draw wouldnt open. I removed it and replaced it with an
> old one, but that didnt work at all. A few days later I got back to it and
> re-inserted the original and the draw decided to open, but now the comp
> cant see it.

> Thanks again Chris.
> Regards Kelvyn.

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