Sony CDRW & Linux Re: [Nottingham] Mandrake 9.0

[Bob Winter]

Sorted it. The problem arises if you take the easy way and boot from the 
install CD and choose update from M8.1. The kernel that is installed as 
default in the update doesn't have SCSI support so you have to recompile a 
kernel that does (not forgetting to include USB as I did the first two times)

Bob

On Wednesday 19 Feb 2003 5:50 pm, 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