[H-GEN] technical problems

[Conor Cunningham]

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Michael wrote:

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> Hiya everyone,
>
> I am having two seperate problems on my home machines that I can't figure
> out and I was wondering if anybody else out there had any suggestions.
>
> 1)
>
> Machine, p120 chip, 8mb Ram, 8 speed CDROM drive
>
> When I upgraded the motherboard in this box from a 486dx2/66 one to the
> early pentium board the CD ROM drive refuses to work under linux anymore.
>
> Every time I try and mount the CDROM drive now it says
>
> mount failed : no medium found
>
> and refuses to work, I have sampled several different CD's in the drive,
> set up the CDROM drive on ide0 and ide1 ports on the mainboard, as both
> master and slave drives. Nothing wants to work for it.
>
> I know the CD-ROM drive is an old one and may have died, I just found it
> odd that the drive died right when I upgraded the board.
>

Gidday,
            I dont have too much to say on this, however, I recently did
something similar to a friends machine and had the same problem under windows
9x. It stumped me and eventually the computer dudes who sold her the machine
found some patch on the net. I do believe it was found on the site of the
manufacturers of the CD-ROM. Good luck

>
>
> If anybody has any suggestions for the above two problems please email me
> back, I would appreciate any help/suggestions anybody could
> make. Additionally I should be at the coming humbug meet if anybody
> wouldn't mind helping me with either prob.
>
> thanks :)
>
> (and much thanks in advance to anybody who can help, I am out of ideas for
> both problems)
>
> --
> Michael Ross
> Shard                   shard at shadowfire.org
> http://shard.cjb.net    irc.shadowfire.org
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Regards,

Conor Cunningham
cunnigham at uq.net.au


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