[ale] Debian 2.6.8/Plextor dvd help please

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 11:58, Jim Seymour wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 03:57:40PM -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > > 
> > > dmesg | grep hdc returns empty :-\ In fact I can't even find any
> > > reference to the drive in dmesg. At this point all I am interested in
> > > doing is being able to mount the drive to view the files on a cd or play
> > > music cd's on it.  I can worry with how to burn stuff later if this
> > > makes the process any easier.
> > 
> > If dmesg does not show the device at all, then there is no way to access
> > it from any OS.
> > 
> > Double check the cables and device selection jumpers and try the burner
> > in another machine. If possible, try another device on that same cable
> > at that same position to see if the device is dead or if the cable has
> > issues.
> >
> 
> Yes it hit me later that the ide bus driver might not be loading however
> discover identifies it and does load it. I can "borrow" a drive out of
> me girlfriends computer later this week. It will probably be a few days
> before I can dig back into this issue. Thanks to all for the input and
> ideas. I had reached the frustration point where the brain ceased to use
> reason.

I know the feeling. I can't get the _same_ FC3 x86_64 DVD to load on a
second dual opteron machine. Anaconda crashes if I mention anything with
RAID. The first install had RAID on a SCSI card. The second has RAID on
a quartet of SATA drives. I can load onto a single drive and ignore the
other three but that's cheating!

Bah! I'm going to go channel surf for a while. 
> 
> Later,
> 
> Jim Seymour
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