OT: lost my cd/dvd drives

[Duncan Lithgow]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 16:28 -0800, Ed Fletcher wrote: 
> I hate to tell you to look at your bios but it's where you should start.
I've been spending a lot of time there recently - good to be getting
familiar with it I guess.

>  Check to see if the bios is showing both your cd and dvd drives. They
> should be listed separately.
It isn't showing either of them, just the two HDD's, it reads something
like this:
Primary IDE Master: WDC WD1200JB-00FUA (my ATA 120GB disk)
Primary IDE Slave: not installed
Secondary IDE Master: not installed
Secondary IDE Slave: not installed
Third IDE Master: Maxtor 6V300F0 (my SATA 300GB disk)
Third IDE Slave: not installed
Fourth IDE Master: not installed
Fourth IDE Slave: not installed

As I understand it my CD/R and DVD players should be in this list,
right?
>   If not, you likely have to set one as
> master and one as slave.
I've tried that and tried setting them both to cable select. makes no difference.
> Read this for more info:
> http://www.pcguide.com/proc/config/ide.htm
thanks, I read a fair bit of that, it's a bit old and he repeats himself a lot.

> You should also see them listed on the screen when you boot.
Yeah, I thought it used to be. Currently I can only see the list of IDE devices if I go into BIOS (that could be a 'feature').

Thanks for trying to help again ed,

Duncan
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Duncan Lithgow <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk>
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