Re: for the love of GOD! SATA DVD Burner

2005-07-27 Thread Rizlaaf
be the only person on the planet trying to use a SATA optical drive with linux. Reminds me of ieee1394 and how long it took linux to gain actual working support for that. -Mike I´m trying to mike with litte succes. 2 days after I bought the sata optical drive I read it´s not working on

Re: for the love of GOD! SATA DVD Burner

2005-07-20 Thread Mike
> > I'm not much help here any more, but here's my suggestions for what > they're > worth: > > 1. Plextor hardware lists: > http://www.plextor.com/english/support/support_compatability.html > http://www.plextor.com/english/support/media_712SA.htm > http://www.plextor.com/english/support/PX-716SA mo

Re: for the love of GOD! SATA DVD Burner

2005-07-20 Thread roach
On Monday 18 July 2005 10:30, Mike wrote: <...> > I read things that imply that Fedora supports SATA ATAPI. Whats wrong > with it that prevents Debian from doing it but allows Fedora to do it > with it's stock kernel? I don't know, maybe I'm just confusing myself > even more. <...> I'm not much he

Re: for the love of GOD! SATA DVD Burner

2005-07-18 Thread Mike
Mike wrote: Brian Pack wrote: According to the July Maximum PC (page 62), There are issues with 3rd party SATA chips on motherboards when it comes to optical drives. The Silicon Image chip would be one of those. They did not have very good results with the Silicon Image 3112 or 3114 contro

Re: for the love of GOD! SATA DVD Burner

2005-07-18 Thread Mike
Brian Pack wrote: According to the July Maximum PC (page 62), There are issues with 3rd party SATA chips on motherboards when it comes to optical drives. The Silicon Image chip would be one of those. They did not have very good results with the Silicon Image 3112 or 3114 controllers. I ass

Re: for the love of GOD! SATA DVD Burner

2005-07-17 Thread Brian Pack
On Sunday 17 July 2005 09:54 pm, Mike wrote: > roach wrote: > >SUPRISE! > > > >See somebody did answer. Now peel yourself off the floor and lets > > continue... > > > >I doubt very much that this is a problem with linux and relates more to > > your SATA controller chipset. Most chipsets assume that

Re: for the love of GOD! SATA DVD Burner

2005-07-17 Thread Mike
roach wrote: SUPRISE! See somebody did answer. Now peel yourself off the floor and lets continue... I doubt very much that this is a problem with linux and relates more to your SATA controller chipset. Most chipsets assume that you'd only connect a harddrive and therefore only support harddr

Re: for the love of GOD! SATA DVD Burner

2005-07-17 Thread roach
On Sunday 17 July 2005 23:40, Mike wrote: > Does anybody know why debian doesn't detect SATA optical drives? <...> > (I didn't post my system logs, lspci etc because it doesn't matter > i'd be suprised if anybody responds to this one either) SUPRISE! See somebody did answer. Now peel yourself

for the love of GOD! SATA DVD Burner

2005-07-17 Thread Mike
Does anybody know why debian doesn't detect SATA optical drives? I'm using sid, it detects my SATA controller and loads everything up. But completely ingores my plextor 716SA DVD Burner. I havn't gotten a single response to this question the last 8 times i've asked it. -Mike (I didn't post m