Allegedly, on or about 17 January 2016, Robert P. J. Day sent:
by "firmware", do you mean BIOS? no, it doesn't. the
BIOS sees both
the primary (regular) hard drive, and the CD/DVD device. that's it.
Are the other drive ports enabled in the BIOS? And are they set to
detect a drive?
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64
Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is
no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages
posted to the mailing list.
Linux servers are always being dæmonised...