Re: Strange things happen when reading from CD-ROM

2001-03-13 Thread Christoph Groth
Steven Dickenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This definitley lends credence to the software problem theory. > Unfortunatley, my Linux skills are nothing compared to my general > hardware skills, so I can't offer you too many suggestions on > hardware tuning and troubleshooting drivers under Linu

Re: Strange things happen when reading from CD-ROM

2001-03-09 Thread Christoph Groth
Steven Dickenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It would be mechanically impossible to connect all the drives in > > any other way using the chassis and cables I have. > > 36" IDE cables are your friend ;) Isn't there a severe restriction of the length of IDE-cables? At least for UDMA? >

Re: Strange things happen when reading from CD-ROM

2001-03-08 Thread Steven Dickenson
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 06:41:06PM +0100, Christoph Groth wrote: > That's what I thought, too. Do you think that connecting the hard > disks to ide0 could make any difference? It shouldn't, but I've seen stranger things. > The Samsung is slave - can the slave slow down the master? And > besides

Re: Strange things happen when reading from CD-ROM

2001-03-08 Thread Christoph Groth
Steven Dickenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The IDE-Devices connected to it are: hda: Traxdata CDRW2260+, > > ATAPI CDROM drive hdb: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6002B, ATAPI CDROM drive > > hdc: IBM-DTLA-307030, ATA DISK drive hdd: SAMSUNG WU32163A > > (2.16GB), ATA DISK drive > > You have a rather st

RE: Strange things happen when reading from

2001-03-08 Thread Joris Lambrecht
sn't in sync. with the drives etc. sometimes BIOS updates resolve such issues. good luck, Joris -Original Message- From: Steven Dickenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 5:11 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Strange things happen when reading fro

Re: Strange things happen when reading from

2001-03-08 Thread Steven Dickenson
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 03:03:53PM +0100, Christoph Groth wrote: > Hello all, > > My box is a PC with an EPoX 8KTA2 and a Duron 700, a Matrox Millennium > II PCI and a Gravius Ultrasound PnP (ISA). It is running Debian 2.2r2 > (Kernel 2.2.17). > > The IDE-Devices connected to it are: > hda: Trax

Strange things happen when reading from

2001-03-08 Thread Christoph Groth
Hello all, My box is a PC with an EPoX 8KTA2 and a Duron 700, a Matrox Millennium II PCI and a Gravius Ultrasound PnP (ISA). It is running Debian 2.2r2 (Kernel 2.2.17). The IDE-Devices connected to it are: hda: Traxdata CDRW2260+, ATAPI CDROM drive hdb: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6002B, ATAPI CDROM drive