[vox-tech] Accessing cdrom from Tom's Root Boot

[Richard S. Crawford]

On Thursday 30 December 2004 14:17, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:

> Agreed: wierd.  IDE (at this level) is usually foolproof.  I can't think of
> any way to disable a cdrom.

I think he had disabled the auto-detect for IDE drives beyond the first 
device.  It was set to detect the hard drive, and had options to auto-detect 
another primary drive, and two secondary drives.  Those were all disabled.  I 
set the first secondary drive to auto-detect CD-ROM, and that fixed it.

This computer was originally located in a public library.  I imagine that the 
previous sysadmin had done this (and set the setup password as well) in order 
to protect the computer from being tampered with.

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