[Leaplist] CentOS question ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

William A. Mahaffey III wrote:

> Damien McKenna wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> I have heard that as well (master last on chain). That is indeed the 
> case here, POST shows LG GSA drive as secondary master & it is indeed 
> the end of chain. I have been thinking a bit (always a dicey 
> proposition) & I have a theory. I installed CentOS 4.4. CentOS is 
> always based on an older (more stable, more thoroughly tested, more 
> mature) code-base. This particular DVD burner is a relatively new (to 
> the market, i.e. newly available) piece of hardware. I bet the 
> installer had some newer driver in it that could cope w/ the *quite* 
> newly available DVD burner, but the installed code has an older driver 
> that can't handle it. Thoughts ?
>

Just to close this off, it looks like this burner (LG GSA H22N) is 
indeed *not* supported under CentOS 4.4. A bit of more detailed googling 
(pointed to by someone on the CentOS list) indicates that this burner is 
supported for kernels 2.6.14 & up. CentOS uses kernel 2.6.9, so 
apparently nogo ....

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