How much is too much?

[Jim Bonnet]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:25:37PM -0500, Lee wrote:
> Trying to install SUSe 8.1 on a trip;e boot system with Win98, Mandrake 9.0. 
> Have three cdrom type devices on the box a DVD/CD Burner hdb, a dvd/cdrom 
> combo reader hdc, and a cdburner hdb. On the Mandrake every thing works fine. 
> On install Mandrake set up the icons as CDROM1,2,3.  Each works independently 
> of the others when accesses. With SUSe 8.1 10 separate icons are placed on 
> the KDE #.0 Desktop. Five for the DVDRom burner and five for the DVD/CD combo 
> reader. Accessing of these and the only that responds is the dvd/cd burner. 
> The CDROMS are installed as: DVD burner primary slave, CDROM burner Secondary 
> Master and the DVD/CDROM reader is the secondary slave. 
> 
> How do I get SUSe 8.1 to install only one icon per drive, and get that drive, 
> and only that drive to access through the Desktop icon?
> 
> Lee
> 

Take a look at the dmesg output. Did all this stuff get recognized as scsi
devices? If yes, first try booting with max_scsi_luns=1 at your boot: prompt.

Jim