[ale] CD Rom Problems

[J. D.]

Try the two cdrom drives one at a time on the cable. Jumper them for
master and run each separately while trying your bootable cd. Avoid
jumpering cable select.

Merry Christmas,

J. D.

On 12/24/09, mo9916 at numail.org <mo9916 at numail.org> wrote:
>
> Have an old Compaq on which I wanted to play a music CD using Kaffeine.
> It's running Debian Lenny with KDE desktop.  CD player wouldn't work.  It is
> powered as the drawer would open and close.
>
> First checked the fstab and mtab files which were correct.
>
> Then did a shut down and pulled the IDE cables and re-seated them in the IDE
> controller socket and the drive socket and still nothing.
>
> Then did a shut down and put my GParted disc in and started again, but again
> the drive didn't work.  Now that's how I installed Lenny about three months
> ago with a NETinstall disc.
>
> Computer has two IDE controllers.   Primary controller has two hard drives
> (primary is a 20Gb with 98SE and slaved is a 24Gb with Lenny.  Second
> controller has two CD drives (primary is a 48x with an old 4x in the slave
> position).  The 4x is the original CD.
>
> Bootloader is GRUB.
>
> Is there a way to check whether the secondary IDE controller is kaput or
> perhaps I should just ask what could I further do to determine the source of
> the problem.
>
> Jim Moore
>
>
>

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