Thanks for replying. It was the loose cable that was the culprit.
I thought it was IRQ conflicts between CDROM and Video card.
Subba Rao
subb3 at ibm.net
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On Sat, 21 Aug 1999 17:04:52 +0100 (IST), Dave Airlie wrote:
>>Take a look at the output of the command dmesg,
>look for where it mentions hda, see if it mentiones hdc in the same region
>or cd drive, other option, make sure the BIOS still detects it at bootup..
>>Dave.
>>On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Subba Rao wrote:
>>> I had my CDROM working until 8 AM this morning. All I did was changed my video card and closed the
>> box. At bootup time, the CDROM drive did not get mounted.
>>>> I tried to manually mount the drive,
>>>> $ mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom
>> mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device
>> (maybe 'insmod driver'?)
>>>> That is the message, I get now.
>>>> Then, I inserted a audio CD, and xmcd does not play it. I am using OSS driver ( and did turn on the driver ).
>>>> The "eject" command says
>> eject: open failed for '/dev/hdc': No such device
>>>> Did not know changing video card was so dangerous ;-)
>>>> I would appreciate any help. The video card a XFConfig work great, but now I want my CD to work.
>>>> Thank you for any help.
>>>> Subba Rao
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