[vox-tech] Plextor PX-712A not working...

[Ken Herron]

Dylan Beaudette wrote:

> The [cdrom] drive is connected to the primary IDE channel, and my hard drive is 
> connected to a serial IDE channel. As of kernel 2.6 my hard drive is accessed 
> as a SCSI device. However, my cdrom drive does not answer to requests sent to 
> hda,hdb,hdc,hdd ... nor to any SCSI devices...

Dylan, are you able to access both the CD and the hard drive from other 
operating systems or earlier Linux revisions when they're wired this 
way? I wonder if the motherboard has disabled the primary IDE channel 
because one of the serial ATA ports is in use, or maybe Linux can't 
drive both at the same time for some reason. Perhaps moving the CD to 
the secondary IDE bus would do the trick.