CDROM drive not recognized when connected as slave

rsamurti · 01-24-2004, 10:56 AM

Hello:

I have a Sony CDROM drive and a Samsung CD-RW drive. Both of them are connected to secondary IDE channel. I have Intel D815EEA2 motherboard.

During installation of Slackware 9.1, one of these drives which is configured as master is detected. Is this normal? I tried changing jumper settings on the drives. I found that the drive with a jumper setting to work as master is always recognized after probing, but not the other drive which is slave.

Anand

Tinkster · 01-24-2004, 12:31 PM

I don't think that's a slackware problem... Have you
checked your BIOS settings (Both drives AUTO)?
The next thing I'd be looking at is the IDE-cable...

Cheers,
Tink

rsamurti · 01-24-2004, 07:06 PM

Both drives are configured as AUTO in BIOS.

What should I look in the cable? Please advice.

Anand