I'd go into the BIOS setup and see what drives appear. That might be the
clue that helps you understand what is going on.
Next, I'd follow Robin's suggestion and boot from a CD-based distro.
I'm a bit foggy, but it seems like I had a system that worked oddly when the
CD writer was connected as the master to the second ATA port (one HDD on the
first port). When I moved it to the first port as a slave, it worked fine.
Ken Elliott
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-----Original Message-----
From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of SOTL
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 3:09 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] DVD iso - Help
I would really appreciate a little feedback as to if my theory of what is
happening is feasible as I really have no desire to pull this box out of its
physical location and put it back.
Thanks
SOTL
On Thursday 07 June 2007 19:17, SOTL wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 June 2007 20:51, Steve szmidt wrote:
> > On Thursday 07 June 2007 17:34, SOTL wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 06 June 2007 09:00, Levi Bard wrote:
> > > > > :-[ READ DISC INFORMATION failed with SK=2h/ASC=3Ah/ACQ=01h]:
> > > > > No
> > > > > : medium found
> > > >
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > > :-[ READ DISC INFORMATION failed with SK=2h/ASC=3Ah/ACQ=01h]:
> > > > > No
> > > > > : medium found
> > > >
> > > > There was no DVD blank in the drive.
> > >
> > > Yea Right
> > >
> > > Think Again.
> >
> > OK, the DVD drive is not there?
>
> You are on the right track but you are looking at the wrong thing.
>
> The DVD is in the drive; in fact the blank DVD is still in the drive.
> The DVD RW is physically there.
>
> The computer sees the DVD reader and sees the reader in 3 different
> R/W programs.
> I can burn iso CDs and DVDs.
>
> Both the CD R/W were replaced with new CD/DVD R/R because of this problem.
> The ribbon cables were replaced.
>
> So far we are talking 2 years of changes.
>
> Mom died. I left Florida. Add another 2 years to the time line. So
> much time in fact that I have forgotten much of what was done.
>
> It is a definite hardware issue. To many systems installed in this box
> to much work and effort for it not to hardware. Which makes it more
> difficult now due to location of box.
>
> The only thing that I can think of is that hda=3,1,0 and hdb=3,64,0
> which to me says that the ribbon cables are crossed.
>
> One would normally expect hda=1,1,0 and hdb=1,2,0 which is not what I
have.
> So I am assuming since it is virtually the only thing left is that the
> mother board does not see the burner because the ribbon cables are
crossed.
>
> If that is not the issue then there is something really strange going on.
>
> As an apology I did not recall all this when I made the initial
> posting as it has been over a year since I have even touched the box.
>
> Thanks
> SOTL
>
> PS I anyone has any thoughts on the above being plausible please let
> me know.
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