Re: cdrom no medium found

[Aaron <aaron greyhour com>]

You are correct

I did not provide enough information

The story as it stands today

I bought this machine for $500 from a guy with a little shop that fixes computers and sells em cheap.  It is a Micomp computer (the name of the shop).

I bought the thing for linux so I formatted and installed redhat lickety-split

the cdrom was working fine until sometime after I added my new harddrive (though it seems I recall using it at least once after that because I had to start mounting /dev/hdc instead of /dev/hdb but that memory is pretty fuzzy but...)

I have been in the BIOS and it seems to know I have a CDROM, when I ask it to "autodetect" what's there it comes up cdrom every time

when I put a disc in the light goes

on bootup I get the message 

hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache

so it would seem that linux knows about the cdrom  on some level, and the machine knows about the cdrom on some level

today I bought a new ide ribbon cable to replace the other one and I'm still having the problem (I looked at how the ribbon was in the harddrives and mirrored that -meaning the strip is facing the same way as far as I can tell)

i noticed the problem after I did a kernel upgrade (2.0.36 - 2.2.10) but I don't know if that caused it.  I included ALL sorts of cdrom support and still nothing

as far as the cdrom, I believe it is a cyberdrive (i have the model number around here somewhere...)

That's where I am now (and I have one of the redhat discs in there)

Aaron
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I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.
> You didn't give much information in your question...not enough to base
> an answer on.   For example, you didn't say anything then about not
> knowing if the CDROM works in Windows because you don't have Windows
> installed.  Is this solely a Linux machine?   What is the story about
> not having Windows in this computer?  Did you have Windows but removed
> it?  If so, did the CDROM work before removal of Windows?  What kind of
> computer is it?   Does the CDROM light ever come on at all during
> bootup?  Did you check the BIOS during computer bootup to see if the
> computer knows it has a CDROM?   How did you install Linux, from a CDROM
> disk?
>  
>