[Leaplist] CentOS question ....

[Damien McKenna]

On Jan 19, 2007, at 12:14 AM, David Simmons wrote:
> It's weird that your optical drives doesn't show up in  
> dmesg....maybe double
> check connections....replace IDE cables....re-quadruple check the
> jumpers

Almost every time I've heard of a problem with a newly installed HD  
or optical drive not working it has been because of the cable and/or  
jumpers set incorrectly.  Remember, if you have to drives on a cable  
the drive at the end of the cable should be jumperred for Master  
while the one in the middle should be Slave (I don't do the cable- 
select thing myself).  Also, it is best to do one drive per cable,  
but still remember that it must be jumperred correctly or it probably  
still won't work.

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