hi
I seem to have a really annoying problem and have tried many solutions but nothing has seemed to work. i have tried everything from replacing cables, drives, psu and even a reinstall of mandrake 9.1.
The problem is everytime i boot i get a configuration window asking me configure the removal of my 2 drives
DVD-ROM ATAPI Model DVD-116 0122
‎LITE-ON LTR-52327S
but the very next time i boot it asks me to install them again. this happens everytime. Have i configured something wrong??

also im running mandrake9.1 with kde 3.1 if u need to know.

thanks
uvone

has anyone one seen anything like this before??? is anyone able to suggest another place to try and find a solution... im at a total loss

thanks
uvone

the only thing I can think of is if one/both drives are older drives and their on the same cable. (both on primary, both on secondary) For a long time both DVD-ROMs and CD-RWs liked to be primary on what ever cable they were on. Don't ask me why, I just maitnence them, I don't design them. I have an older DVD-ROM and CD-RW in the same box for awhile and for a while the windows box they were in randomly would decided that the slave didn't exist on boot. A few years later and I replace the DVD-ROM (lense was dieing) and put the new DVD and old CD-RW in my linux box. After awhile I discovered that my DVD-ROM would quit working randomly. At first I thought it might a power problem, but after switching which was slave and which was master (DVD was slave and I used it more than the CD-RW), and since then I've never had to do a hard reboot to use the slave.

Long story short, try switching which is master and which is slave.