Just for the record, I figured out what was wrong with this CD drive - I re-installed it in an XP machine, and it works perfectly - I am fairly sure it must be an htfo-fl problem - I put a new CD/RW drive in the linux box, works fine. Also, the CDRoast problem turned out to be a type of problem most every CD program in my system has with the CD drives - permissions issues - the drives are always recognized fine when logged in as root, never as a user. Someone did suggest I change permissions in udev, but, being a 1 month old linux user, that looks too daunting and dangerous. I'll try that when I get a little more confident. Seems weird that a workstation OS would default to that.. Also, getting the second CD drive to be recognized was fairly simple - it usually works better when the IDE cable is plugged into the back of the drive <sigh>. On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:18 -0500, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:18 -0500, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 20:41 -0500, Greg Viola wrote: > > > Hi: > > > > > > First, I want to thank you guys for helping me unravel how to get the > > > install disks created from the FC3 ISO download files. Worked great. > > > > > > Now I am trying to use the CD drive (which is fairly old, but its the > > > one I used to install FC3) , and I get an error - "cannot read > > > superblock" - when I insert a CD into the drive and FC3 tries to mount > > > the CD. CD reads fine in WinXP. Get the same error with commercial > > > audio CDs. Can't open the drive either once I get this error. XMMS > > > and GRIP both report drive errors. CD Roast wants me to make the > > > drives emulate SCSI, but I haven't tried that yet. > > > > > > Also, how do I get FC3 to recognize my second CD drive (brand new > > > CD/DVD drive) > > > > > > Both drives are on the second IDE controller. The old drive is > > > master, new one slave > > > > > > > You don't say which distro you are using. > > If it is FC3 you do not need the scsi emulation for the CDROM. > > > > You did not say what hardware you have with the CDROMs. If you are > > using a cable-select cable, then you must jumper the drives to cable > > select. If you are using an older 40 wire cable (non-cable select) then > > you must jumper the drives to master/slave. > > > > I would also recommend that the newest CDROM drive be the master on that > > bus. > > > > I would expect the problem with reading the drive and mount/dismount > > problems are related to not properly seeing the CDROM. Fix the hardware > > problem first and then if the problem with dismounting continues ask > > again. > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Greg Viola > > > > > >
