optical drive problem
Hi All,
I'm having some optical drive trouble, and I was hoping that someone might be able to help me out.
I'm running Ubuntu 6.06 on a Dell Dimension 4600 destkop, and most things are working pretty well. Ubuntu sits on an 80gb hard drive (master), and I have a spare drive (40gb - slave) that I use to do test installs of various OS's.
My primary CD/DVD drive is a DVD-R drive (master), and I just installed my CD-RW as a slave drive on the same IDE cable. The jumpers are set correctly, but The BIOS does not recognize either of these two drives if I do a reboot from my OS. Note: it does recognizes both of them if I do a hard restart (shut down the PC all the way, and turn it back on). I tried setting my BIOS to what I guess is the normal boot mode (not the fastboot), but that does not seem to help . . . It (of course) just makes it boot more slowly. :-( I'm running the most recent version of my bios that is available from Dell.
Furthermore, when I do a hard reboot, and then try to burn a CD in the CD-RW drive, it won't burn anything. It says that I need to insert a blank CD into the drive. This same drive worked fine when I used it as the only writeable-media drive on my PC, and the DVD drive works well just by itself, too. It's when I put them together that I have PROBLEMS. :(
Any ideas or suggestions as to what to do/where to look/what to hack to fix this?
Thanks, all.
I'm having some optical drive trouble, and I was hoping that someone might be able to help me out.
I'm running Ubuntu 6.06 on a Dell Dimension 4600 destkop, and most things are working pretty well. Ubuntu sits on an 80gb hard drive (master), and I have a spare drive (40gb - slave) that I use to do test installs of various OS's.
My primary CD/DVD drive is a DVD-R drive (master), and I just installed my CD-RW as a slave drive on the same IDE cable. The jumpers are set correctly, but The BIOS does not recognize either of these two drives if I do a reboot from my OS. Note: it does recognizes both of them if I do a hard restart (shut down the PC all the way, and turn it back on). I tried setting my BIOS to what I guess is the normal boot mode (not the fastboot), but that does not seem to help . . . It (of course) just makes it boot more slowly. :-( I'm running the most recent version of my bios that is available from Dell.
Furthermore, when I do a hard reboot, and then try to burn a CD in the CD-RW drive, it won't burn anything. It says that I need to insert a blank CD into the drive. This same drive worked fine when I used it as the only writeable-media drive on my PC, and the DVD drive works well just by itself, too. It's when I put them together that I have PROBLEMS. :(
Any ideas or suggestions as to what to do/where to look/what to hack to fix this?
Thanks, all.
