> On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 11:41:53AM -0600, Joe Dunsmore wrote: > > > > Ok, when I was screwing around with switching my drives around, after I was > > done and booted up, I got a message about my cd-rom drive even though I > > never touched it. It asked something about if it should detect it, I said > > no since things were working fine with it before. Now my computer can't > > read my cd-rom drive. I went into bios but there wasn't any options to > > make it detect a device. any ideas what I should do to make my computer > > see it? > > Are you sure that you didn't accidently dislodge one of the cdrom > cables? Also, do you have the jumpers set correctly on the any > harddrive that shares an IDE cable with CDROM? Yeah, I'm sure. The cdrom is the only drive on the cable. > At 12:00 PM 2/5/2004, you wrote: > >Ok, when I was screwing around with switching my drives around, > > Master/Slave jumpers correct? It's in cable select mode, just like before I screwed around with it. > > after I was > >done and booted up, I got a message about my cd-rom drive even though I > >never touched it. It asked something about if it should detect it, I said > >no since things were working fine with it before. Now my computer can't > >read my cd-rom drive. I went into bios but there wasn't any options to > >make it detect a device. > > "Auto" works fine. Hit "pause" when the detailed BIOS boot screen comes by > & you should see all your drives listed. Enable the detailed screen in the > BIOS if you just get a splash screen. Auto? I didn't see that anywhere in my bios options. It also didn't have an option to disable a splash screen. I pressed F10 to get into my bios at startup and my options were pretty limited, there isn't some hidden set of menus, are there? > > any ideas what I should do to make my computer > >see it? > > What OS? bla, bla.... Red hat 9 on hda, mandrake 9.2 on hdb, I boot with grub. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list