[Leaplist] CentOS question ....

[Jim Hartley]

Just for your info, FC6 uses 2.6.19 (was 2.6.18 until an update a day or 
two ago) and FC6 is pretty similar to CentOS 4 (I have both installed on 
different partitions of this machine) so it might be worth giving FC6 a 
try ... it fixes some other things, too, but of course the trade-off is 
a few things that are bleeding-edge-broken.

Jim Hartley

William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> 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 ....
>