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Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

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Still no DVD drive......

Hi,

Updated kernel and I still do not have dvd drive.....

Would very much like to fix this problem so I can install Ubuntu nah! only joking

What output, hooks, tools size of hammer do I need?

May try hooking up dvd drive with a sata convertor see if that works

MrG

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Mr Green

android

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From: San Diego

Registered: 2003-04-18

Posts: 160

Re: Still no DVD drive......

Hi Mr Green,

What is being detected during the boot?

On my system:

[root@recube johnea]# dmesg | grep -i dvd
ata2.01: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4320B, 1.01, max UDMA/33
scsi 1:0:1:0: CD-ROM            HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4320B 1.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5

Mr Green

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From: U.K.

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Re: Still no DVD drive......

that shows nothing......

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Mr Green

Intrepid

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 254

Re: Still no DVD drive......

@Mr. Green: You have an nforce mobo right?  I have had the same problem which I resolved in 2.6.25 with a very messy kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro brokenmodules=pata_amd

This worked because it used the module from 2.6.24 but now even that is broken again. What a dirty fix; the new kernels have been weird with my BIOS and mobo.

Last edited by Intrepid (2008-08-05 04:55:50)

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Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

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Re: Still no DVD drive......

I ended up using a ide - sata converter on my dvd drive, which now allows me to use drive :-) .... only system does not boot from dvd drive [may be a bios issue!]

Do not know whats going on its not an Arch problem as far I can tell only seems odd that ide drive would break as most system use them

Again it may be I have AHCI set in bios [hope I got that the right way round!]

Thanks for the heads up, hope you get your drive working soon

MrG

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Mr Green

Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

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Re: Still no DVD drive......

I changed  to ahci in bois and drive now boots fine,,,,, I can use it under Arch [/dev/sr0]

Still have no clue as to why ide drive would not work,.,, could test it next time side panel is off :-)

MrG

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Mr Green

Intrepid

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 254

Re: Still no DVD drive......

Well, I removed Testing from the Pacman.conf and downgraded to the kernel in Core and it works fine now, no messy kernel options needed!  I still think it's the newer kernel/pata_amd problem.  I don't see any AHCI option in my bios haha, maybe I'm just inobservant or this is an old bios.

I'm glad you found a workaround yourself.  I believe my drive is SATA as it is, so it's remarkable it didn't work seeing as my hds are detected fine.

Last edited by Intrepid (2008-08-05 18:47:07)

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