Sony CDRW & Linux Re: [Nottingham] Mandrake 9.0

[Lee]

have you tried disabling dma on the drive, work for me with suse.

Cheers,
Lee

On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 17:50, Martin wrote:
> bob winter wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone seen anything about Mandrake 9.0 problems with Sony CDRWs
> 
> 
> No, but then again, I haven't looked...
> 
>  
> 
> 
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Linux version 2.4.19-16mdk (quintela@bi.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk)) #1 Fri Sep 20 18:15:05 CEST 2002
> > BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> [...]
> > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
> 
> 
> My system fails at the point above (complete system freeze) for an old 
> Sony CDRW on an ide secondary master interface. I also have a Panasonic 
> DVD/CD drive on ide primary master that works fine. (ide slaves unused.)
> 
> The workaround for me is to have the secondary ide interface disabled in 
> the bios so that the Sony CDRW isn't visible.
> 
> The Sony CDRW freeze-up is consistant for the Mandrake 9.0 boot disk, 
> the HD installed system, and also for Demo Linux booted from cd.
> 
> 
> I'm doing a kernal rebuild before investigating further.
> 
> Let me know if you get any ideas or hints/tips!
> 
> 
> Good luck,
> Martin
> 
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