Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262668AbVDYRz2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:55:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262675AbVDYRz2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:55:28 -0400 Received: from 113.135.160.66.in-arpa.com ([66.160.135.113]:16647 "EHLO furrylvs.randyg.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262668AbVDYRzV (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:55:21 -0400 Message-ID: <426D2F03.2040001@bushytails.net> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:55:15 -0700 From: Randy Gardner User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050116) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ide-cd? Can burn DVDs, just not read them... References: <426972E5.4000408@bushytails.net> <20050425163436.GA15693@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20050425163436.GA15693@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1672 Lines: 44 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/