Replacing CD Drive with DVD drive

Basil Chupin blchupin at iinet.net.au
Wed May 12 12:10:33 UTC 2010


On 12/05/10 22:03, Karl Larsen wrote:
> On 05/11/2010 08:10 PM, Keith Clark wrote:
>    
>> I'm trying to replace a CD drive with a DVD drive but I'm not having
>> much luck with it.
>>
>> It (Ubuntu 10.04) does not seem to see the drive, or at least it does
>> not auto install it or mount it.
>>
>> I see no entries in my fstab regarding the drive (or even the old CD
>> drive).
>>
>> I do have a /cdrom directory, and a /media/cdrom directory.
>>
>> I'm not sure where to go from here.
>>
>> Keith
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>      
>       Check your BIOS and see if the drives show up there with the hard
> drives. I have a CD/DVD drive on my computer and it works fine!
>
>    
Is that right, Karl? You have a CD/DVD and it works, eh? Well I have a 
CDROM *and* a DVD burner and they also work and on *Lucid 10.04* would 
you believe!

Gosh, isn't life grand?

BC

-- 
The best defence against logic is ignorance.





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