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