I have a couple SuperMicro C2SBM-Q motherboards machines that have a DVD writer connected to the single IDE connector on the MB. I don't see the device anywhere. dmesg doesn't seem to detect the device on bootup and I dont see it in /sys/block.
The device works (sort of) because I could run anaconda installer using the disc1 iso image I wrote to a dvd. The installation was actually done via http, not via the local cdrom which I now remember failed.
I could use some help trying to debug this. It's running the latest kernel from the 5x series. 2.6.18-194xxxx which was released just recently.
Ken