Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:55:15 -0700 | From | Randy Gardner <> | Subject | Re: ide-cd? Can burn DVDs, just not read them... |
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Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Have you checked that the drive is running the latest firmware release > for it? Bad firmware causes all sorts of problems.
Don't have an easy way to test that; I'd have to take it back to the person with a dual-boot box, as I'm pretty sure their update utility is a windoze bianry...
But, since problems are also happening with my cd-rw drive (even with the dvd-rw out of the system), which I know worked before, I don't think it's a drive problem.
> What other device is it sharing the cable with? Which is master and > which is slave?
Originally it shared a cable with my cd-rw drive, but I've tried it both on its own cable and sharing with one of my hard drives, on both the ata/66 controller and the ata/100 raid controller, with no changes at all.
> Is it a 40 or 80 conductor ide cable? Most 8x+ DVD writers want an 80 > conductor as far as I know (at least to operate at full speed).
80 conductor cables for all tests. I might be able to dig up a 40 conductor one for testing, but I don't think that'll help...
> Len Sorensen >
Someone suggested I try a binary search of kernel versions to figure out exactly when the cd-rw drive was broken (which worked before, unlike the dvd, which I have no idea if it ever worked), in an effort to figure out what caused it to break... going to try this, but haven't had the time... a long project. :)
Thanks again, --Randy
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