Re: [newbie] Arbitrarily recognizes CD ROM drive

1999-11-08 Thread Matt Stegman
On 5 Nov, Karen Heiby wrote: > Most of the time Linux can't mount my cdrom drive, but it recognized it just > 10 minutes ago for the first time. > > Why does it recognize it and sometimes it won't? My first thought would be to check the IDE cable (I presume it's an IDE drive) to be sure it's pl

[newbie] Arbitrarily recognizes CD ROM drive

1999-01-03 Thread Karen Heiby
Hi, Most of the time Linux can't mount my cdrom drive, but it recognized it just 10 minutes ago for the first time. Why does it recognize it and sometimes it won't? Sometimes when it boots up, it sees it: hdc: Atapi 20x CD ROM drive 20k cache (or something like that--it goes by too fast for me