2 CD drives

[Chadley Wilson]

On Wednesday 12 January 2005 21:18, Fred Antrobus wrote:
> Most of the time "eject <mountpoint>" works
>
> i.e.   eject /mnt/dvd
>
>
> Fred
>
>
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:04:41 AM PST
> From: Phil Schaffner <P.R.Schaffner at IEEE.org>
> To: Ryan McDougall <izanseth at gmail.com>,	For users of Fedora Core releases
> <fedora-list at redhat.com>Cc:
> Subject: Re: 2 CD drives
>
> On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 12:25 -0500, Ryan McDougall wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > There is a pc in our department that has 2 CD drives. One is a CD-R
> > and the other is a DVD drive. The CD-R opens and is usable but the DVD
> > drive is not. I checked /etc/fstab and both drives are in there. I
> > tried the eject command and it would open up the CD-R but not the the
> > DVD drive. Can anyone suggest a fix?
>
> Not exactly, but see if it looks like
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138964
>
> Phil

Hi Phil
I also had that problem today,

What I did as a  work around is this,
echo "#!/bin/bash" > /etc/rc.modules
echo "/sbin/modprobe ide-scsi" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.modules
chmod +x /etc/rc.modules

Then upgrade your udev to udev_039-10.FC3.6_i386.rpm

edit the grub.conf file with this
title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.681_FC3)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet 
hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi

presuming they are both on the secondary IDE channel

otherwise work it out like this:

Primary ==> master = hda
primary ==> slave = hdb
secondary ==> master = hdc
secondary ==> slave = hdd

if it is scsi or SATA then someone else will have to help you here

Oh and then reboot

Hope you have the success I had

cheers


-- 
Chadley Wilson
Redhat Certified Technician 
Cert Number: 603004708291270
Pinnacle Micro
Manufacturers of Proline Computers
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