On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 8:12 AM, g <geleem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > <snip> >> $ eject >> eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom' > > in reading your thread, i am presuming that you have gone thru your bios > setup and correctly tried to enable your dvd drive and that controller is > enabled and insured that control/data and power connectors are properly > seated. [with bios update and reinstall of old bios] > > as a suggestion, do you have another cd or dvd drive that you can connect > in place of current dvd drive, or another hard drive? this would prove out > that cable and controller are ok. if not, move dvd drive to other controller. > > also, when you boot, does bios show 'updating nvram ... ok'? if not, battery > may be getting low. Thanks to all who tried to help me. Meanwhile, I opened the computer and I changed the configuration of the cables, and now everything is working fine. I have also removed one of the hard disks. Paul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines