On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:19:39AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On (26/05/01 20:31), Alex Suzuki wrote: > > I have 2 IDE-Drives, one of them is a Plextor CD-Writer. > ...... > > I cannot mount it as a user nor as root. > > I'm shortly going to be buying one of these drives myself and I found > a possible solution to your problem at a Linux hardware site:- > > http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?1979
Thanks, but I already solved the problem. Just call hdparm -d0 /dev/*wherever_your_drive_is* to turn off DMA. That solved the problem for me. Alex -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address