> I've had problems with CD drives and ide-scsi - one would not mount CDs > unless dma was turned off and my burner eats a lot of cpu unless dma is > turned on.
> Well I guess I'd try `hdparm -u0 -d1 /dev/hdc` but I'm not too > optimistic at this point. :) Sorry I couldn't help. If you have > another OS on this machine, does the drive rip and burn ok there? If > not, I would probably start looking at the ide cable and then the drive > and maybe try swapping stuff out. Okay, tried that and it still won't rip. I forgot to mention that the drive works fine with M$ XP, so it's not a hardware issue. Actually, this is the second cdrw that's given me the same problems. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washington http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]