[COLUG] AOpen DVD drive issue

[Thomas W. Cranston]

Dave wrote:
> I got a new custom computer (from TCR in Pickerington) for my wife's 
> office and am having issues with the DVD drive. I burned a DVD of 
> CentOS 5 and it loads ok and brings up the first screen, but once I 
> select to install from the "CD-ROM" drive, it says it needs a driver. 
> So I created an image of the DVD on my Mac and did an ftp install 
> which worked fine.
>
> After the installation, I still can't get the DVD drive to recognize 
> any disks. I put a music CD in and it didn't recognize that either. 
> I'll need to call TCR tomorrow to get the exact specs, but the invoice 
> says it's an 18X DVD +/-R/RW IDE burner and the label on it says it's 
> an AOpen. I can't even identify the drive at aopen.com for certain. 
> And a google search for aopen dvd burner driver didn't turn up 
> anything useful. I've never had an issue with CD or DVD drives with 
> Linux before (although this is the first time in a couple years that 
> I've installed Linux - and the first with a DVD burner) so I'm stumped.
>
> The hard drive shows is /dev/sda - there's no other /dev/sd and no 
> /dev/cdrom, or /dev/dvd anything after the install.
>
> Any ideas? It's not crucial that I get it working, but I would like 
> them to be able to burn backups to it.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
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Return the computer for something that works.