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From: Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Can't mount cdrom?
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:37:45
Message-Id: 005001c608a8$1135e330$0200a8c0@donahues.us
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Can't mount cdrom? by Peter Martin
1 ----- Original Message -----
2 From: "Peter Martin" <pjmartin@×××××.ca>
3 To: <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o>
4 Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 11:07 AM
5 Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Can't mount cdrom?
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9 >
10 > Duncan wrote:
11 >
12 >>Drake Donahue posted <004b01c6083a$fc0acf10$0200a8c0@××××××××.us>,
13 >>excerpted below, on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:34:45 -0500:
14 >>
15 >>
16 >>><snipping madly>
17 >>>found this and was reminded that i do not know the cd in question is
18 >>>master on the second ide controller
19 >>>"
20 >>>Your first task is to determine the device name. Refer to the chart
21 >>>below:
22 >>>
23 >>> IDE Port Master/slave Device
24 >>> 1 master /dev/hda
25 >>> 1 slave /dev/hdb
26 >>> 2 master /dev/hdc
27 >>>
28 > As I understand it, Master is the device on the end of the cable. My HD is
29 > on the end of one cable and is working fine as hda. My cdrom is at the end
30 > of the other cable, and works fine while booting from the cd. I beleive
31 > that my mother board only has 2 IDE ports and if I want more drives it
32 > will be on sata.
33 >
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35 Master/slave is usually determined by jumpers on the device.
36 It is pretty clear the cd is at hdc, however running eject hdc(should) and
37 eject hdd(shouldn't) will confirm identity and the lowest level of function.
38
39 > From other post, I did 'modprobe ide-cd', result;
40 > Fatal: module ide-cd not found.
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42 this is as it should be, if you used yes vice m in menuconfig on the item
43 ata/atapi/mfm/rll support under device drivers.
44
45 >
46 > Peter
47 >
48 >>That's what I was wondering as well, but I thought /surely/ it had been
49 >>covered already, and I must have missed it. Glad to see it specifically
50 >>covered here, however, just in case.
51 >>
52 >>
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Can't mount cdrom? Peter Martin <pjmartin@×××××.ca>