My CD burner is gone

[Delphi]

Hi!

Today when I was about to start burning a CD with K3b I my CD burner was gone. I haven't actually used it too much since I installed FC6 a couple of months ago, but I think it has been working the whole time. Yesterday I got a couple of messages telling me that I had inserted an audio CD and asking me what to do with that, even though my CD drive was empty. Today I cant find it anywhere. There is no /dev/cdrom, or anything else that could be a CD drive, and in kSysInfo it says "No information available about CD-ROM info".

I have tried to google this, and search this forum, but I haven't found anything usable.

My system is a Dell Latitude 110L laptop with FC6 on it.

Edit: After writing this post I checked the BIOS, and found that the Modular Device Bay-field was empty. I believe this to be the CD rom, and so the problem may not be OS related after all. The problem with CD drives disappearing is a known problem with this computer, at least in my school, so I guess I'll just have to talk to PC support when I get back to school on monday.

Any help is still welcome, though, if anyone knows how to fix it

- Delphi

[John the train]

Can't help with the disappearing CD drive Delphi, my Dell Latitude ( Win98 vintage! ) is well behaved in that respect, but there is a thread started by Xen ( General Support>Mysterious CD-ROM disc ) which sounds very similar to the other problem you mention. No one has responded yet, but it might be worth watching that thread. Hope someone can help you both.

[Delphi]

Thanks for the suggestion, but the CD burner is back. I upgraded my BIOS from A4 to A8, and that brought it back again.

- Delphi

[Delphi]

And now it's gone again Or rather it is there, I can see it in /dev, and I can see the empty cd I inserted, but both K3b and xcdroast claim they cannot find any CD burners on my system. Which leasves me back at my original question, what to do now?

- Delphi