Hello I am trying to get two cdrom's working on the same cable/bus and its not working in windows, but they work in linux. Here is the scenario:
0. two identical LG Electronics 48x cdroms. 1. Bios sees two cdroms installed on secondary controller. The primary controller is empty since I am using SCSI hard-disks. 2. One cdrom is set for master with jumpers and the other is set to slave. The cable does not appear to be a "cable select" cable. ie. it does not have two different color ide conectors. I have not ohmed out the cable to see if line 27(i think that is the one) is opened/closed. 3. I can mount cdrom's in either /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd. ie. the cdroms work when I dual boot to linux! 4. In windows, the device manager shows both cdroms using the same device, but the second cdrom has the yellow, exclamation mark icon. Right clicking the device icon shows a message which says "This device will not work until the computer is rebooted." Guess what does not work when the computer is rebooted. 5. All patches/service packs have been installed in windows. summary: the two cdroms work in Linux, but not windows. I've tried various jumper settings, master/slave, master/no jumper, cable select for both. There is a similar problem in the trilug archives where a guy fixed his problem using a different jumper. I tried that as well and it didn't work. obligatory ms bash (if the above was not enough): After installing windows, during the service pack(s) install via network, my computer was infected with the welch(sp) worm. I have since removed the offending dll with norton antivirus. -- Happy Trails John F. Davis ABC #6334 1992 R100GSPD Durham, North Carolina http://www.skink.net -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
