Re: [newbie] before I quit

2002-12-29 Thread ET
On Sunday 29 December 2002 02:04 am, Aaron wrote: Thanks for the response, sorry I didn't respond back sooner but I changed email programs and just now finished updating all the threads. I now sorta have the drives working. The problem was that in my fstab I had scd0 and scd1 but when I

Re: [newbie] before I quit

2002-12-28 Thread Aaron
Thanks for the response, sorry I didn't respond back sooner but I changed email programs and just now finished updating all the threads. I now sorta have the drives working. The problem was that in my fstab I had scd0 and scd1 but when I tried to mount them I got an error not a block device. I

Re: [newbie] before I quit

2002-12-28 Thread Aaron
Yes I agree that all distros have their own quirks and I am now back on board. The drives all worked on my win boot that was what was making me crazy... And even crazier is the fact that the cdburning stuff found my cdr and used it succesfully.. :) The printer is another bag of beans, I

[newbie] before I quit

2002-12-27 Thread Aaron
Hi I have been running mandrake 9.0 for the last few months. I have a number of hardware issues which I can't seem to resolve. I am writing one last time before I install RedHat. I have three cdroms on my computer one is a dvd ide drive hitachi the second is and ide plextor burner 40/12/40a and

Re: [newbie] before I quit

2002-12-27 Thread Jason
I have run Mandrake since 8.2. I also run Cooker. I can't answer your questions but I can assure you that RedHat will not solve your problems (in and of itself). RH8 has been so dumbed down (according to all reports) that it is all but unusable to power users. There are other reasons to stick

Re: [newbie] before I quit

2002-12-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 27 Dec 2002 11:46 am, Aaron wrote: Hi I have been running mandrake 9.0 for the last few months. I have a number of hardware issues which I can't seem to resolve. I am writing one last time before I install RedHat. I have three cdroms on my computer one is a dvd ide drive hitachi

Re: [newbie] before I quit

2002-12-27 Thread Jason
I suggest you disable supermount alltogether then use Kwikdisk to mount the drives one at a time to test them KMenuConfigurationHardwareKwikdisk Just a thought Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 27 Dec 2002 11:46 am, Aaron wrote: Hi I have been running mandrake 9.0 for the last few

Re: [newbie] before I quit

2002-12-27 Thread mycal62
Hi , have you tried to run the cd drives in other boxes to insure they work? also have you changed the IDE cable first? I ask because I went through a similar situation. it turned out to be the slave connection on a UDMA cable. the master was fine but the slave was bad though it was a new

Re: [newbie] before I quit

2002-12-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 27 Dec 2002 1:53 pm, Joe Braddock wrote: I don't have an answer for yo but I have some questions. I noticed that you don't have supermount loaded (at least you are not using it in your fstab file). Did you actually do the supermount disable or did you just manually edit your fstab