[RLUG] Installing My DVD Burner

[Sebastian Smith]

> Ah, now there's a distinct possibility.  If the DVD drive is on the same
> cable as one of the HDDs, You need to look on the dvd drive in back and
> re-jumper it to a slave.  If the jumper directions are not on the drive
> or (enclosed) documentation, you should be able to find them on the web.
>
> Alternately, you can put the dvd drive on the second channel cable all
> by itself.

If you have a free channel you should plug the device into it.  The result 
will be faster burn speeds.

> Either way, when you have it hooked up correctly, you'll be able to
> verify by going into cmos before booting into the os, if the bios sees
> it, then the os should also recognize it and load the necessary drivers
> etc.
>
> Dennis
>
>
> On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 20:14 -0800, Brian Chrisman wrote:
>> jennifertf at excite.com wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I finally got my NEC 3550A DVD burner from !%$#%@ Newegg.  I connected it up and neither Linux nor Windows could see it.  I couldn't even boot off the old CD burner until I disconnected the new drive.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Is it IDE?  might be a master/slave setting thing?
>>
>>> Jennifer
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