problems with later added DDS-2 tape-unit

[James Wilkinson]

Angelo Machils wrote:
> Sad thing is that after the reboot I have my tape, but lack my cd-writer 
> all of a sudden. The system is a HP workstation WS4000, with a combo 
> (IDE) DVD-reader/CD-writer. The system recognizes the drive as a DVD/CD 
> reader, but not as a writer anymore.....

So do you ever get your CD writing capabilities back?

Is there any chance that as the CD writing bit is enabled, you lose your
tape drive?

Do you have "=ide-scsi" anywhere in your /boot/grub/grub.conf file?

James.

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