Dissapearing re-appearing CD-Rom drive
I hope somebody can give my some advice. My problem is that my
cd-rom drive is not always recognised by the BIOS when my
machine starts up, I have the bios set to auto configure. When
this happens it does not appear in the Debian startup screen.
and when I try to mount it I get a message like invalid block
device.
I had this problem before and the bios seemed only to recognise
the drive when on a cold boot or a warm boot when a data cd was
in the drive. However as Win95/NT both managed to use the drive
irrespective of wether the Bios found it I did not bother about
it to much and was told that it is just a qurk of ide. I am a
little disappointed that Debian (hamm) has problems.
I have just reinstalled Debian, as i made a complete mess of my
last instellation, everything worked well the machine booted
from the CDrom but when it came time to run dselect it would not
recognise the drive. Fortunately I have a HP 7200i CDRW so I was
able to use this to finish the instellation. Since then i
sometimes can read the Cdrom and sometimes I cannot.
This problem with the BIOS has not been happening for quite some
time and I don't know why it has returned as i don't seem to
have done any thing to coincide with it.
I have a P200MMX, Abit TX5 ATX mboard. 3.2 Gb hd as primary
master. Phillips 24X CD-Rom as Secondary Master and HP7200i as
secondary slave. I have flashed the m'board bios with the latest
updates but to no avail. BTW I am running hamm
Thanks in advance. and sorry about the spellin
Noel
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