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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] cdrom drive problems
Date: Mon,  7 Nov 2005 19:58:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0511071658p3ca0f45dq2cf7a3e4b3863622@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <436FF505.6070003@moseslake-wa.com>

> It has been unable to recognize either of the two CDROM drives I've
> tried... could it be that my IDE controller is the problem?

Sure, but the problems are always with detecting the CDROM,
not detecting the hard disks (they are completely different things
as far as the IDE controllers are concerned).

Just try the boot floppy.

Russ


      reply	other threads:[~2005-11-08  0:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-04  1:48 John Floren
2005-11-04 19:39 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2005-11-04 19:45   ` John Floren
2005-11-06  7:45     ` Sergey Zhilkin
2005-11-07 23:53   ` John Floren
2005-11-08  0:06     ` Russ Cox
2005-11-08  0:44       ` John Floren
2005-11-08  0:58         ` Russ Cox [this message]

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