[wellylug] cdrom transplant on old laptop

[Geraint Jones]

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 16:18 +1200, Bill Christiansen wrote:

> The cdrom drive on my old Toshiba was starting to fail badly making it
> hard to boot livecd's without buffer i/o errors so I picked up a
> replacement drive on trademe that had the right connector and physical
> specs. It had the added bonus of also being a cd writer and dvd
> reader. Was somewhat major surgery on this old laptop, having to
> remove lots of
> screws to split the casing and pull the ribbon cables. My heart nearly sank when all I got was a blinking light after reassembly and powering back on until I realised that one of the screws I'd left a bit loose was also responsible for clamping the cpu onto the mother board. Anyway in the end the operation was sucsessful, only problem is the new drive is seen in linux as /dev/hdd instead of /dev/hdc which is not really a problem except the bios can't see it at all meaning I can't boot from it. Fortunately though I'd made an SBM (smart boot manager) floppy while the old cd drive was still in the laptop and it has an entry for the cd drive so I can boot from the floppy then when the menu comes up select the cd drive and it will boot my new cd drive but if I tell SBM to rescan my devices it can't see the new drive either. I'll be OK as long as I never loose the original floppy I made. 
> Old drive was TEAC CD-224E, new drive shows up as QSI
> CD-RW/DVD-ROM SBW-242. Anyone know if the master/slave status is changeable on these laptop drives?
> 
> Bill

Try here

http://forum.rpc-1.com/viewtopic.php?t=18512&highlight=SBW-242

it looks like the master/slave is set by firmware

Geraint Jones
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