by Hello, I just upgraded my system from an old IDE CD-ROM to a UltraPlex
14/32 and a RICOH 6201S [I think that's the number] 6R2W CD-ReWriter.
The problem is that I can no longer see a CD-ROM. Can someone show a
fool what possible mistakes he might have made?
System:
Dual PP166/512 in a SuperMicro P6DNE, 192MB of EDO RAM (32MB x 6);
Seagate Barracuda (4G) at SCSI ID #1 [/dev/sda]
Seagate Hawk 2 (2G) at SCSI ID #2 [/dev/sdb]
Plextor Ultra 14/32 CD-ROM at SCSI ID #3 [not clear which dev]
Ricoh 6201S CD ReWriter at SCSI ID #4 [not clear which dev]
Fujitsu 230 MB MO drive at SCSI ID #6 [/dev/sdc]
old Adaptec 2940 SCSI card at SCSI ID #7
cheap SB compatible sound card
D-Link DE220 ISA NE2000 clone
Matrox Millenium 8 MB (original)
System: Red Hat 4.2 [afraid to touch 5.0] set up with the old
IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM in place of the newer CD drives.
Symptoms: Cannot read either CD drive. When trying to mount either
/dev/scd0 or /dev/scd1, get a not ready error saying that
either superblock is bad or drive is empty.
Other data: the system minus the motherboard has been in use continuously
since Jan 96, until the CD-ROM upgrade. Both the Ricoh and the
ultra Plex is detected at boot time as sr0 and sr1 [but not as
scd0 or scd1] ... A kernel was compiled with the SCSI CD-ROM and
generic support.
Any comments, as well as helpful hints on how to get CD-writing going if
and when I fix this, will be welcome. E-mails tips welcome!
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