eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom'

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson
<mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
>> Thanks, Nataraj and Mikkel. I think the problem is not Linux specific.
>> My machine has also got MS Windows, and MS Windows cannot also detect
>> my burner. I suspect that the problem is caused by the fact that I did
>> recently a BIOS update.
>>
>> My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8I945PL-G and my burner is an IDE one.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
> Does it show up in the BIOS? Is the drive jumpered properly? If it
> was jumpered slave, or jumpered Cable Select and it was on the
> center connector of a CS cable, the BIOS may not detect it with the
> upgrade.
>
> Also check that the BIOS didn't do something strange with the
> upgrade like turning off the second IDE controller. SOmetie after an
> update, you are better off resetting all the BIOS options, and then
> resetting them to what you want/need.

I have downgraded the BIOS update to the one that was working before,
but no progress: the BIOS cannot see the drive. I did not do anything
physically to the computer. So, I guess the driver is correctly
jumpered.

Paul