When I boot, that first screen that lists all your hardware lists both CD
drives as PIO 4. Would that have anything to do with my problem? In other
words, should my CD-RW drive be anything else?
Are there any BIOS settings that may be interfering?
Thanks,
Miark
----- Original Message -----
From: Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Newbie at MDK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:53 AM
Subject: [newbie] CD-RW at hdc inaccessible
> Hi all,
>
> I'm running 8.0 and can't read my Creative CD-RW RW8433E drive at hdc. I
> looked through old messages, but couldn't find a solution. Here's my
set-up:
>
> hda - hard drive hdc - CD-RW
> hdb - <nothing> hdd - DVD-ROM
>
> Here are other details:
>
> * /dev/cdrom is sybolically linked to /dev/scd0
> * LILO includes append=" hdc=ide-scsi mem=1024M)"
> * An lsmod reports the presence of "ide-scsi 7568 0"
>
> * hdc and hdd are on a 40-pin cable
>
> * KDE reports the permissions at basically 777
> * ls -la on /dev/cdrom is identical to cdrom2 (w/ lrwxrwxrwx)
> * ls -la on /mnt/cdrom is identical to cdrom2 (w/ drwxrwxrwx)
> * ls -la on /dev/scd0 is brw-rw---
>
> I'd very much appreciate your insights!
>
> Thanks,
> Miark
>
>
