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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:55:15 -0700
From: Randy Gardner <lkml@bushytails.net>
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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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