I have no clue where to start, so any help would be appreciated greatly.

what exactly do you need help with?

Getting my machine to recognize an HP CD-RW drive that I connected. It´s not connected via USB if that´s what your thinking. It´s an internal thing.

How is it connected then?

I forget the name for the cable. It´s attached to the motherboard.

Everything is attached to the motherboard. The type of cable is kind of important. Think you could look it up in the drives documentation, or just describe what it looks like? At the very worst, you could post a picture of it and we could go from there.

i lol'd

fourdigit@ubuntudesktop:~$ sudo cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a33 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2007 J�rg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.34
Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'ATA ' 'WDC WD400BB-75JH' '06.0' Disk
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
fourdigit@ubuntudesktop:~$ sudo lshw -businfo -C disk
Bus info Device Class Description
================================================== =====
scsi@0:0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 37GB WDC WD400BB-75JH



Does that help?

To be honest, no, because unless the drive is sata (narrow cable) and the hard drive is IDE (wide cable), that looks like a modern hard drive.

Want to link to a product page of the burner?

I looked for a really long time, but all the HP pages say ¨this page moved" or something along those lines.

All I know is HP CDWriter.

I´m just gonna fiddle with the cables.



On an unrelated note, whenever I want to type an apostrophe I have to tap the key twice. Otherwise it does this: ¨ïtś.¨

Any way to fix that?