/dev/cdrom was mapped to /dev/hdb on my fresh install of RedHat 6.0 instead of /dev/hdc as it really is. This is not a fatal flaw, just an annoying one, which I corrected manually. /dev/hdb is another IDE hard disk drive in my system. All drives (fixed and removeable) are running off the on-board IDE controller of my motherboard.
How are your jumpers set for these devices? ------- Email Received From "John Aldrich" <john> 05/24/99 23:24 -------
What brand and model of motherboard are you using? I have not seen this behavior and it seems your controller chipset is doing strange things. ------- Email Received From John Aldrich <john> 06/08/99 16:14 -------
This really sounds like a chipset bug. I'm resolving it as "WONTFIX", but if we get enough other reports to figure out what is going wrong we can change that. You might want to send the output from dmesg showing the IDE and disk detection phase: As a sample to show you the part to send: VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6402B, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.54