On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 12:11 pm, many eyes noted that Larry Sword wrote: > Charlie wrote: > >In case this is one assistance to anyone who might not have been able to > > get k3b to recognise their writer. > > > >I use LiteOn CD readers and writers exclusively on any of my own systems > > or systems that I build. > > > >Using Mandrake 9.1 > > > >On one of my systems I had a reader and writer on the one cable. The > > reader was at the end of the cable, and later I installed and connected a > > writer into the center of the cable. I then started to use k3b which > > recognised both accurately. However, after some months, the reader had > > problems. The reader didn't read and the system told me that no media was > > present. > > > >The reader was jumpered as the master and the writer was jumpered as the > >slave. > > > >I couldn't boot a CD-ROM, so I altered the positions of both drives on the > >cable. Put the writer at the end and the reader in the centre of the > > cable, and jumpered the writer as master and just to fill up the hole and > > try the reader again, still put the plug in and jumpered it as slave. > > > >Surprise, surprise. The reader worked again and the writer booted CD's But > >when I tried to burn CD's, k3b would not recognise the writer. Saw it only > > as a reader. Just in case, uninstalled k3b and then reinstalled it, but > > it still registered 2 readers, no writer. > > > >So I took a panel of the box, left the CD drives where they were, but just > >jumpered the writer as slave again, and the reader as master. Invoked k3b, > > it now recognised the writer as such and the reader correctly also. The > > reader still worked and the writer with k3b burned CD's without and > > trouble. > > > >Thought I would pass this on in case it might help anyone that was having > >trouble with k3b not recognising writers> > > > >Charlie. > > One question, did you change the settings in LILO and reboot after > changing the location of the drives on the IDE channel? > > Larry
No I didn't do that Larry. I don't have any reference in /etc/lilo.conf to CD-Roms that I can find, and I run grub on that system. But I did change the entries in /etc/fstab without any joy. Charlie. -- A steady wind scours the autumn moon >From a stagnant pool, >From the crystal spring every place pure now Just as it is. Why, then, does karma yet coil and bind? - Miao Yin (376-380) This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0
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