My Knoppmyth System had been up and running fine - R5C7. I bought a new dvd drive today and installed it in place of the old cd drive that was there already. It seems to not recognize it because it wont play or burn dvds. BUT, it will attempt to boot from a cd and if the knoppmyth cd is in, it runs it. Any ideas????

~Eric~

Off the top of my head (I'm still a bit of a linux noob) the only thing I can think of is the master/slave setting on the drive is different.
If so, your myth install could be looking to play DVDs on /dev/hdc when the drive is actually on /dev/hdd

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Yea, your right - because i know that the new drive is being picked up ad hdd, but it wont mount any cd i put in. I put back the original drive as the master and have the new drive as slave - it gave me an error, hdd: lost interrupt. So i took out the jumper and now it boots fine with both - recognized them both (i think - because it tried to boot from cd twice, one for each drive) but when i put a cd in the new dvd drive, it will not mount or play if its a dvd. My original cd drive is hdc, new dvd drive is hdd, and the hard drive is hda. Thanks for any more help you guys can privide.
~Eric~

First things first. Make sure you have the drive identity sorted out in terms of jumpers and cable position See this writeup.
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... c&start=18

After you verify that, check the dmesg logs to make sure that the drives are recognized at boot time, and that you know which drive is which.

- Put a disc in the drive and try to mount it manually. Adjust the drive specifier shown here as needed.


- Once you've verified that this works unmount it.


- Add a symbolic link for the device in /dev

I'm guessing that you'll find that both of these are linked to /dev/hdc for your first optical drive. You'll need to add another alias or rearrange things. I'm going to assume that you link the new device in as cdrom2. The following is by example from the /usr/local/bin/cd_link.sh script.


- Add an entry to /etc/auto.mnt for the drive. The KM setup scripts work fine for one optical drive but two needs human intervention (two means a choice and it can't guess your intent). This is basically a duplicate of my exisiting cdrom entry with the device name changed to match the new link created above.

OK - are you sure that all of the code you wrote is correct because it still will not auto mount to the dvd drive. My original cdrom drive is recognized as hdd, and the new one is hdc. I manually mounted and it worked. I unmounted. Then i did the


Then i did


Finally, I added the life to the auto.mnt file and still nothing.

Im not sure abour the chgrp line only because it sais all three things are retained as cdrom . . . I dont know what that really means even!

~Eric~[/quote]

Perhaps you need to go into the Settings and tell MythTV where the new drive is located...

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**Status Update**
Ok, so I changed the dvd settings from /mnt/cdrom to /mnt/cdrom2.
I put a dvd in the drive and still nothing!
I opened a xedit window to view the filetree and found that /mnt/cdrom2 did not exist, BUT when i typed /mnt/auto/cdrom2, i saw the files on the dvd disc . (this all without mounting and unmounting anything)

Does this help understand (and hopefully solve) my issue?

Thanks - ~Eric~