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Old 09-09-2003, 02:19 PM   #1
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dvd/cd-rw drive help


i just install mandrake 9.1 to my dell inspiron laptop with dvd/cd-rw combo drive, but my machine cannot detect the dirve as cdrom, thus i'm not able to read data from cd-rom. can anyone help me solve this probem? thanks!
 
Old 09-09-2003, 03:53 PM   #2
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Check and see if your machine detected it as 2 drives. My DVD+CDRW comes up as /dev/dvd and /dev/cdrecorder
 
  


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