[oclug] Toshiba xm5303B - help

[Raymond Wood]

One thing to try is:
  dmesg | grep -i cdrom
This may give output indicating the device associated with your CD-ROM e.g.
  hdd: MATSHITA CR-583, ATAPI CDROM driv

HTH,
Raymond

On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 05:30:12PM -0500, bartom wrote:
> I am trying to install Mandrake 7.2 using a boot disk, all seems to go OK
> until it looks for the cd-rom drive. If I select ide-cd I get a message 
> - Autoprobe says it can not find the device anywhere-  .
> There is no entry for Toshiba xm5303B in the list. Do I need a special
> driver for this cd-rom. During the floppy boot process I think I see a
> reference to the Toshiba but the screen flashes by so quickly I can not be
> sure.
> 
> regards
> 
> Barry