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.
