[Leaplist] CentOS question ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

Jim Hartley wrote:

> 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 ....
>

Roger that, I just got done installing FC6 x86-64 on a C2D box at work, 
love it, smooth as silk. I am mostly setup w/ the CentOS here now, have 
a buddy w/ an older DVD ROM drive that I am haggling for, I'll probably 
stay w/ the CemtOS for now ....

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