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#1 2006-04-21 06:01:22

sweiss
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Registered: 2004-02-16
Posts: 635

Linux unrelated: Device conflicts

Hello. I've recently got a new CD-writer, and I wanted to attach it to my machine. My machine has one HDD, a floppy and a CDRW drive.

When I tried to connect the new CD writer, I could use neither of the CDRW drives. Linux didn't even boot, spitting some funky error message regarding hdc (if it's important I'll try to get it), which is the device of my CDRW drive.

When I disconnect one of the CD writers, the machine boots and the CD writer which is connected works fine. For some reason I cannot connect them both.

Have you any ideas what might be causing this? To me it seems like both devices are trying to use the same spot (primary slave).
Does it make sense?

Thanks.

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#2 2006-04-21 06:41:58

torindan2
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Registered: 2004-07-15
Posts: 74

Re: Linux unrelated: Device conflicts

Check for the jumpers on the back of both CD writers.
They may be both set as master, just set one of them to slave and it should work.

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#3 2006-04-21 14:55:06

sweiss
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Registered: 2004-02-16
Posts: 635

Re: Linux unrelated: Device conflicts

That really was it.
Thanks a lot smile

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