(solved) sata dvd drive not detected

[meterbox]

new build:
cpu: pentium G840
mb: msi h67ma-e45
gpu: nvidia gt430
hd: hitachi sata 500gb
dvd: samsung sata dvd burner
ps: antec earthwatts 380
ram 4 gb

Hard drive is divided in two with win xp & pclinuxos.  My problem is that windows sees the dvd drive but pclinuxos does not.  It did allow me to install pclos from the live cd.  Pclinuxos has sda as the harddrive & sdb as a usb hp printer.  What do I need to do to make pclinuxos see the dvd drive?  Desktop is KDE4 and kernel is 2.6.38.8-pclos3.pae.  Please advise any other info needed.

[Old-Polack]

new build:
cpu: pentium G840
mb: msi h67ma-e45
gpu: nvidia gt430
hd: hitachi sata 500gb
dvd: samsung sata dvd burner
ps: antec earthwatts 380
ram 4 gb

Hard drive is divided in two with win xp & pclinuxos.  My problem is that windows sees the dvd drive but pclinuxos does not.  It did allow me to install pclos from the live cd.  Pclinuxos has sda as the harddrive & sdb as a usb hp printer.  What do I need to do to make pclinuxos see the dvd drive?  Desktop is KDE4 and kernel is 2.6.38.8-pclos3.pae.  Please advise any other info needed.

Is the problem that the OS does not see the optical drive, or that it sees it differently than you expect?

Open a terminal and at the prompt enter these command;

[<you>@localhost ~]$ ls -l /dev |grep cdrom                     <Enter>

[<you>@localhost ~]$ ls -l /dev |grep dvd                     <Enter>

Post your results.

[JALU]

Plug your DVD SATA lead into SATA3 on motherboard.

[meterbox]

Old-Polack:

the os does not see the dvd drive at all.  PCC does not detect a dvd drive in PCC-Hardware-browse & configure hardware.

Also, K3B errors out:
No optical drive found.
K3b did not find any optical device in your system.
Solution: Make sure HAL daemon is running, it is used by K3b for finding devices.

Hal daemon is running.

[scott@localhost ~]$ ls -l /dev |grep cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root           8 May  2 18:17 cdrom -> /dev/sr0
[scott@localhost ~]$ ls -l /dev |grep dvd
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root           8 May  2 18:17 dvd -> /dev/sr0
[scott@localhost ~]$

darkages:  i'll give that a shot tomorrow if we can determine it is not a software issue.

thanks to you both for the help.

[meterbox]

darkages:  your suggestion worked; I had the dvd burner plugged into a SATA 6GB port.  Thank you very much for the advice.  Now for the technical question:  why did that work?

[JALU]

darkages:  your suggestion worked; I had the dvd burner plugged into a SATA 6GB port.  Thank you very much for the advice.  Now for the technical question:  why did that work?

Because the universe has smiled on you!  

Some SATA devices need to be jumper configured to be SATA revision 1,2 or 3 controller compatible.  
Sometimes there is a BIOS setting....    or you can use SATA3 plug on the motherboard.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA

SATA 1.5 Gbit/s and SATA 3 Gbit/s

The designers of SATA aimed for backward and forward compatibility with future revisions of the SATA standard.[citation needed] To prevent interoperability problems that could occur when next generation SATA drives are installed on motherboards with legacy standard SATA 1.5 Gbit/s motherboard host controllers, many manufacturers have made it easy to switch those newer drives to the previous standard's mode. For example, Seagate/Maxtor has added a user-accessible jumper-switch, known as the Force 150, to enable the drive to be switched between 1.5 Gbit/s and 3 Gbit/s operation. Western Digital uses a jumper setting called OPT1 Enabled to force 1.5 Gbit/s data transfer speed (OPT1 is enabled by putting the jumper on pins 5 & 6). Samsung drives can be switched to 1.5 Gbit/s mode using software that may be downloaded from the manufacturer's website. Upgrading a Samsung drive in this manner requires the temporary use of a SATA-2 (SATA 3.0 Gbit/s) controller while programming the drive.

blah blah...  I'm sure you get the drift!

&

MSI H67MA-E45 Motherboard  (& many others)
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/H67MA-E45.html#/?div=Detail

On-Board SATA

• SATAII controller integrated in Intel® H67 chipset
- Up to 3Gb/s transfer speed.
- Supports four SATAII ports (SATA3~6) by H67 PCH

• SATAIII controller integrated in Intel® H67 chipset
- Up to 6Gb/s transfer speed.
- Supports two SATAIII ports (SATA1~2) by H67 PCH
- SATA1~6 ports support RAID 0/1/5/10 mode

In short your> dvd: samsung sata dvd burner     is being detected (/dev/sr0) when plugged into SATAIII controller but coms fail in operation.
- so use SATAII revision controller instead.
Cages.