On Monday 21 October 2002 12:49, you wrote: > > > > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, H. Narfi Stefansson wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > I'm now running 9.0, but I can't get it to work while my CD > > > > > writer is connected to my motherboard > > Must admit I had a very similar problem, with the same drive, but with > SuSE 8.0. I put it down to a dodgy drive, it had stopped writing some > weeks earlier. > > Maybe there was a bad batch, maybe we should swap seriel numbers and > sue!
Sorry, I can't join you for that because I know the CD writer is working just fine. I ended up putting it into my USB 2.0 case enclosure and I can use it that way without any problems. Perhaps the bios is buggy, perhaps the bios and mdk don't communicate well enough, I don't know where the fault is. But I cannot connect that cdrw to my motherboard or to my PCI controller card because that always results in lockups. I tried apic, no apic, dma, no dma, master, slave, with and without scsi emulation, on the mobo, on the controller card and most of the possible combinations of these... Narfi.
