Well after some work getting Knoppmyth up and running, I can watch/record TV. Hooray! However, the next step is stumping me. I'm a Linux newbie, and I've read about every thread I can find about DVD/CD access problems, but my Myth box won't recognize when a CD or DVD is inserted, and when I select "Rip CD", MythTv just gives me a blank background until I hit ESC.

Here's my info:



Any idea what's up? Let me know if you need any more info. I hope it's an easy fix and I'm just a dork. Then I can move on to setting up remote playback of my movie and music library!

Did you check to make sure that your DVD drive is actually on /dev/hdc? Search for posts by me within the last week which mention both dvd and hdc, you'll find a grep comand to run against the messages log which shows you what disks are where according to the hardware detection.

BTW - Everything else you've showed us looks OK.

OBTW - you understand this, right? http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3994

You may also want to read the MythTV docs: http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythInstall

Sure enough, my DVD-RoOM was indeed hdb. Makes sense... as I only have two drives in the system. I wonder why Knoppmyth sets it up this way?

Thanks for your help tjc! Here's what I did to fix the problem:

Now my output looks like this:


And my CDs and DVDs work!

Knoppmyth didn't set it up that way, you did when you assembled the hardware and/or set up your BIOS. Linux maps PATA and SATA drive names by their controller "channel" according to the BIOS.

hda - primary IDE master
hdb - primary IDE slave
hdc - secondary IDE master
hdd - secondary IDE slave
hde - first SATA (or tertiary IDE master or ...)

This may vary if you do something like tell the BIOS to swap the order so that the SATA drives appear first, but other than that it's generally true.