I installed Mandrake 8.1 on my Dell Dimension (PIII) and everything went very
welluntil I tried to access my cdrom drive.
This machine has a CD RW drive supplied by Dell, and a DVD rom installed
later by myself.
In checking with HardDrak, I find three cdroms listed:
ATAPI 12X DVDROM
SCSI support is require to be able to write to the drive which is why it
is installed.
-JMS
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bob Kauffman
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 1:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1
Bob,
I'm a newbie so I'll leave the experts to tell you how to 'fix' your
problem. I do know, however, that creating two CD drives, one a SCSI
drive, is standard LM treatment. As I understand it, LM needs to define
a second drive (SCSI) to provide for write access.
I've had problems with
On Sunday 09 December 2001 12:05 pm, you wrote:
This machine doesn't have SCSI support, to the best of my knowledge. Why
is Mandrake seeing two RW drives and why is it seeing a SCSI device?
This is a very common question, easily found in the archives.
The linux burning program, cdrecord,
