Jim
Is your 4224 shown in the device listings as a CDRW?
I am guessing that , if your Zip is like mine, that you had to set it as
Master and your CDRW is set as slave. Just to humor someone you don't know,
and since you have tried everything else that you can think of, dissconnect
your Zip drive and set the CDRW as Master then boot back into Linux and I
bet the drive will work properly.
I have a Creative 8432CDRW and it works well in Linux but I can set it
is master because the Zip drive on this system is USB.
Between motherboard, BIOS, and OSs you sometimes have to play around
with the settings and hook-ups for the hardware to be seen and used as what
it is.
Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner
> Most interesting part of the whole mix...I used the Creative cdrw 4224 to
> both burn and install the OS...LOL
>
> as far as the other hardware I am running an AMD K6-3 450 on a Gigabyte
> GA-5AX mainboard...Ali Aladdin Bios with the most recent update provided
by
> Gigabyte with 128 megs of ram...Nvidia TNT2 video card and everything
> performs well except the Creative cdrw 4224 drive...my zip drive is ok as
> well as both hard drives....sure would like to get this little problem
> worked thru....I am getting tired of manually changing cd drives to access
a
> cdrom in linux
>
> Jim
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Brinkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 5:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner
>
>
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > Mark,
>
> ...the Creative
> > cdrw 4224 is a machine that is supposed to (and does in windoze) act as
a
> > normal cdrom as well as a cd burner...it isn't the equipment...it is the
> OS
> > and the way it is attempting to address the hardware.
> >
> >
>
> you might be better served if you also wondered:
>
> ' it isn't the OS...it is the equipment
> and the way it is attempting to address the OS. '
>
> ?? (I suspect bios/motherboard/etc is in this mix too)
>
> BTW, how good is Creative at providing Linux developers with
> spec's for all the hardware they re-badge ?? or encouraging the
> manufacturer that really made that CD-RW to do the same .... ?
> --
> ~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
