disk and dvdWriter on one ide-chanel

[nepal]

On Thursday 24 January 2008, Thomas Amberger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i had a dvd-rom and a dvd-writer on one ide-chanel (one
> cable). Now i changed the dvd-rom to a harddisk. The disk
> is the master, the dvd-rom the slave. The harddisk works
> normal, but i can't use the dvd-writer. When i boot, the
> bios shows all as it is and i can open and close the
> writer. When Kubuntu (7.10) starts, i cannot use the
> writer (it did not do something, open, close). I deleted
> the line in fstab: hdc .... for the dvd-rom, but it
> didn't work. Is it not possible to use a harddisk and a
> dvd-rom at the same ide-chanel?
>
> Thanks
> Thomas

check the jumper settings on the hard drive are set 
to 'master' and the same on the dvd drive set to 'slave'. 
Make sure you connect the master drive to the correct 
connector on the ide ribbon cable which IIRC is the last on 
the cable. 

It is not advisable to use these two types together, but not 
forbidden.

nepal.