On February 18, 2004 11:37 am, Ray Hogaboom wrote: > On Tue February 17 2004 8:52 am, TheViking wrote: > > Ugh.. This really is beginning to annoy me. I've tried three different > > distro's now (Lindows, RedHat & Mandrake) and im back to Mandrake. Only > > problem is, whenever I try and access my HP 8100+ CD-RW drive it crashes > > the desktop and takes around 15 minutes to pop up a window displaying its > > contents. For that same CD, it will be ok, opening in half a second or so > > and behaving properly. As soon as I put a different CD in and try to > > access it, it crashes the desktop again (All mount icons etc) and takes > > around 15 mins to recover. I had discussed this issue with another person > > on here before but I've lost his e-mail, and further help would have been > > great. Does ANYONE know how I can fix this? > > I am also having about the same problem with my SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-408B > drive but I can never get its contents to display. It lock up my system > when I put a data cd in or if I try burning a cd. Tried fails safe mode and > cdrecord from bash shell evrey thing seam to be working until it started to > write the data then the system locked up. > > Ray
Just a suggestion here, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least to find out that the HP8100+ is actually manufactured by Samsung. I can't remember specifics, but I've had quite a few of those HP drives, and they've been nothing but trouble, especially in Linux, but also in Windows. Of course we all know that HP doesn't build their own drives don't we? Like a lot of companies, they just rebrand them, and slap a new front-end on their software. Their buffers are crap, and they tend to fail quite often. IIRC, the trouble is the firmware on the drives, but it's very tricky to upgrade without info from the manufacturer, and they don't like to give out that info. You said it yourself Ray - 3 distro's of Linux, and the same problem with each. Odds are that it's not a driver module or flaw in Linux, but a problem with the drive. That would easily explain why you're not getting many responses to your post. Other people aren't having that problem, so they don't know how to help. I suggest a Pioneer, or Plextor drive as a long-term replacement. That 8100+ is about 2 or 3 years old, isn't it? Depending on how much you use the drive, it may be time for an upgrade anyway. Try borrowing another brand of drive from someone else and try that one out. As long as Mandrake detects the new drive, it's probably a sure thing that the problem goes away. It may not be the fix you had in mind but it should be a permanent fix. Before you run out to the store to buy a new one though, replace the IDE cable, and see if the drive is set as a Master or Slave. Whichever it is, reverse it. If there's a CDROM drive in the same PC, and on the same cable, reverse it's master/Slave settings at the same time. Also, drop the DMA in the BIOS to 0 or off, and make sure that the IDE cable is attached to your Secondary IDE interface with an ATA33 cable, and not an ATA100 cable, or to the Primary IDE interface.. Stick with the basics first, then try it out. Since the drive is screwing up whenever you attempt to access it though, I wouldn't hold out for that as a fix. Lanman Registered Linux user #190712 "Smart IT people are staring out the window into the eye of a giant penguin!"
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