Can't find CDRom on Dell 700 after Mandrake 10.0 install
Hi.
I started from a new Dell 700 which only had one CDRom drive on it, and one hard drive (SATA). I did install a DVD/CD burner as the second CD. I ran into a problem installing from the CDs, because of a problem I've seen others have where the install would go a short way and then not see the CDs anymore. I got around this problem by doing an ftp install after loading the critical install CD images on a different machine. So I have Mandrake 10.0 installed, but no /mnt/cdrom was created, and there is nothing in the /etc/fstab for the CDrom (or DVD burner, for that matter). The BIOS does see them. I've messed around turning things on and off in the BIOS. I also get an assertion on boot: Assertion failed! dev->class == ATA_DEV_ATA,drivers/scsi/libata-core.c, ata_dev_parse_strings,line=691 which could be related. anyone else have this problem? (and more importantly, fixed it?) I thought I saw something about it when I was trying to fix earlier problems, but haven't been able to find anything with google or with a search on this site. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! thanks, Cathy |
Have you tried mounting them manually after booting up into linux?
Code:
# mount /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom |
when I try that it says that hda is not a valid block device.
From what I've read in the man pages, it should be using hda and hdb, but it is not making them actually refer to the drives. |
That's strange. I don't know how to poke it to see if linux recognizes it - still learning :p.
Could you post what the make and models of the drives are? Does the hardware probing in mandrake's control centre say anything, or is that your "assertion on boot"? harddrake2 pulls it up for me. This is what is listed for my dvdrom/cd+rw drive (dell inspiron 5100). Quote:
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the CDRom is GCR-8483B
The CD/DVD, I need to take the machine apart to see. The above CDRom is listed on the mandrake page as not having the problem of getting trashed by the flush command in 9.2. However, the number is close to some that did get trashed. However, I think I will do some drive swapping and see if I can discover anything (ie, does the drive work anywhere else anymore?) |
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