From: Subba Rao (subb3 at domain ibm.net)
Date: Sat 21 Aug 1999 - 18:14:01 IST
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 domain ibm.net
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On Sat, 21 Aug 1999 17:04:52 +0100 (IST), Dave Airlie wrote:
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>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:
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>> 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
>> subb3 at domain ibm.net
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