Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 26 Oct 2003 10:35 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: On cooker list, every single release cycle since i'm lurking on it, i see a thread starting about a month before scheduled release date. In this thread someone pleads for more testing/time and to kick the release date a little further

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-27 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 27 Oct 2003 7:58 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 26 Oct 2003 10:35 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: On cooker list, every single release cycle since i'm lurking on it, i see a thread starting about a month before scheduled release date. In this thread someone pleads for more

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 27 October 2003 01:58 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 26 Oct 2003 10:35 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: On cooker list, every single release cycle since i'm lurking on it, i see a thread starting about a month before scheduled release date. In this thread someone pleads for more

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-26 Thread Damian Gatabria
El mié, 22-10-2003 a las 18:29, HaywireMac escribió: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:05:37 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: It's kernel issue, not just Mandrake's. Any distro usin 2.4.22 could mess up junk hardware. Go to kernel.org and look for the various hardware

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:09:45 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: that were mostly all blacklisted by kernel.org. I have yet to find such a blacklist. Got a link? -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 20:05:37 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Please note that the problem only seems to be with the CDROM drives, not CD-RW drives. The one I use now as master is a LG CD-RW 52x24x52x drive and it has no problems. HTH That's good to hear, the club forums didn't

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 23 October 2003 05:34 am, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 20:05:37 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Please note that the problem only seems to be with the CDROM drives, not CD-RW drives. The one I use now as master is a LG CD-RW 52x24x52x drive and it has no

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:43:33 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Right, 9.2 on two comps both with LG CDRWs as the main CDROM now. HTH Excellent, load off my mind, thanks. You should post that to the club forums, just so they have the info that CDRW's seem to be okay.

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
At 07:23 PM 10/22/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): LeRoy Duvall Linux user #258988 OK, this is perhaps a little off-topic, but I am still a newbie.g What does this Linux user # thing mean? -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 23, 2003 12:47 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: At 07:23 PM 10/22/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): LeRoy Duvall Linux user #258988 OK, this is perhaps a little off-topic, but I am

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 23 October 2003 06:47 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: OK, this is perhaps a little off-topic, but I am still a newbie.g What does this Linux user # thing mean? This # thing on a command line is your root-prompt. From here you can type in commands, somehow like this C:\ thing in

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
At 03:08 PM 10/23/2003, Charlie M. said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 23, 2003 12:47 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: At 07:23 PM 10/22/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 23 October 2003 01:47 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: At 07:23 PM 10/22/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): LeRoy Duvall Linux user #258988 OK, this is perhaps a little off-topic, but I am still a newbie.g What does this

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 08:11 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I had never even heard of LG Electronics before this came up. I haven't been following this all that closely, but it seems that Compaq (for one) _has_ heard of LG, and

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 23 October 2003 06:22 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 08:11 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I had never even heard of LG Electronics before this came up. I haven't been following this all that closely,

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 08:29 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Wondering if anyone has run into this, I put a brand new (cheap $19.95 US) LG CDROM in the computer, a Gigabyte MB with Athlon 2000 cpu and DDR ram, and as soon as Mandrake harddrake detects it the drive light goes steady on and the

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 09:14 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 21 October 2003 08:29 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Wondering if anyone has run into this, I put a brand new (cheap $19.95 US) LG CDROM in the computer, a Gigabyte MB with Athlon 2000 cpu and DDR ram, and as soon as Mandrake

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Dennis: There have been some reports on the club Forums about 9.2 killing LG drives and there is also some discussion at cooker. Take a look at the second posting here:

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Dennis: There have been some reports on the club Forums about 9.2 killing LG drives and there is also some discussion at cooker. Take a look at the second posting here:

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:37 pm, HaywireMac wrote: Will Mandrake be issuing a new edition for download that has been tested *not* to hose people's hardware? It's kernel issue, not just Mandrake's. Any distro usin 2.4.22 could mess up junk hardware. Go to kernel.org and look for the

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:05:37 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: It's kernel issue, not just Mandrake's. Any distro usin 2.4.22 could mess up junk hardware. Go to kernel.org and look for the various hardware blacklists. Or don't buy junk to run Linux on. No probs with 9.1 or

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:05:37 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: It's kernel issue, not just Mandrake's. Any distro usin 2.4.22 could mess up junk hardware. Go to kernel.org and look for the various hardware blacklists. Or don't buy junk to run Linux on. So all the people

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Heather/Femme
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis: SNIP Anyway, I am watching to see what drives actually will work and not get fried. Thanks for the info. Makes me feel not so stupid. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Plextor rocks. So does Teak Velo.

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:48 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis: SNIP Anyway, I am watching to see what drives actually will work and not get fried. Thanks for the info. Makes me feel not so stupid. --

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread lduvall
As a former tech support person for the evil empire I find this thread somewhat interesting. We used to say that software does not break hardware - then we had video card settings breaking monitors. Now we have Linux taking it to a new level LeRoy Duvall Linux user #258988 On Wednesday 22

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:09 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:48 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis: SNIP Anyway, I am watching to see what drives actually will work and not

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread robin
Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:09 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:48 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis: SNIP Anyway, I am watching to see what drives actually will work and not

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 06:09 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:48 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis: SNIP Anyway, I am watching to see what drives actually will work and not

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:09 pm, robin wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:09 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:48 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis: SNIP Anyway,

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I had never even heard of LG Electronics before this came up. I haven't been following this all that closely, but it seems that Compaq (for one) _has_ heard of LG, and shipped a whole bunch of them. Until I hear otherwise, God bless

[newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-21 Thread Dennis Myers
Wondering if anyone has run into this, I put a brand new (cheap $19.95 US) LG CDROM in the computer, a Gigabyte MB with Athlon 2000 cpu and DDR ram, and as soon as Mandrake harddrake detects it the drive light goes steady on and the drive will not work. At next boot up no light and no