Hello all!

I am new to Linux. Just installed SuSE 8.1, and had trouble -- may still be having trouble <g> - with my CD-ROM/DVD drives. Now, when I go to list my available hardware, I have several listings for one of the drives and two listings for the other -- not including the entries that are checked and working. How do I delete these extra entries?

Also, I have an Asus P4T-E motherboard, and under available hardware, it says I need to cofigure my Asustek 82801BA IDE U100 Storage Controller, but when I try to configure it, I get a message stating there is nothing to configure????

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated!

If your talking about devices listed in the /dev directory, my advise to you is don't delete anything and don't worry about it.

Thanks for the reply Mod -- yeah, I'm finding out that there are lots of things with Linux that you simply don't worry about. I'll get used to it eventually, although I am having trouble now -- I like everything perfect! ;-) Alas...

When I go to Yast2 for instance, my IDE CD-Writer isn't configured, although it works fine. When I try to configure it, it says the device was successfully added as /dev/sr0. But then, it isn't checked as configured, even though it says it is! Argh! I just wanted to set DMA to ON, but since the drive isn't listed, it's not possible...oh well.

where do you get that idea that it isn't going to be configured for DMA?
man hdparm

neo77777,

While I appreciate your reply, I have no idea what you mean. man hdparm? Is this something in the console? I'm very new to Linux, so please explain...

Thanks!