[ale] Added an IDE CD-ROM Drive

[Moe]

Hey Ben,
    If you say that the cdrom door wont open then sounds like it might
be mounted on the filesystem. Is there any cd inside. Look for mnt
from root partition then "cd mnt" then check to see if a directory
called cdrom exists, if it does then "cd cdrom" and you should see the
stuff on the cd.

Lastly, as root do "fdisk -l" then you should see a partition table
showing your hdd connected to linux and the  cdrom if linux see's it.

Let me know what happens either way,
Moe

Ben Phillips <pynk at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Dec 1998 jeff_hubbs at mcgraw-hill.com wrote:
> 
> > Then I added a cheapie PCI-bus single-channel IDE card that had
come with
> > the machine initially (and I know once worked under RH 5.1) and
connected
> > it to an IDE CD-ROM drive that once worked with that very same IDE
card.
> 
> What are you running now?  Slackware makes a directory called /cdrom
(off of
> the root directory).  It could be you don't have kernel support.
> 
> >  Oh, by the way, FWIW, the door
> > won't open (and I really think I plugged the power connector in!).
> 
> That's kinda scary, and unless your CD-ROM is a weird one that needs
> software permission to open (the likes of which I've never seen),
then it
> really could be a hardware issue. 
> 
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> 
> 
> 
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