On Thursday 30 December 2004 14:17, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > Agreed: wierd. IDE (at this level) is usually foolproof. I can't think of > any way to disable a cdrom.
I think he had disabled the auto-detect for IDE drives beyond the first device. It was set to detect the hard drive, and had options to auto-detect another primary drive, and two secondary drives. Those were all disabled. I set the first secondary drive to auto-detect CD-ROM, and that fixed it. This computer was originally located in a public library. I imagine that the previous sysadmin had done this (and set the setup password as well) in order to protect the computer from being tampered with. -- Richard S. Crawford (mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) AIM: Buffalo2K / http://www.mossroot.com "You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus." -Mark Twain _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
