On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:07:40PM -0600, Richard Fillion wrote: > I was never able to get any kernels to boot unless i marked them as > Generic Alpha in menuconfig. "cat /proc/cpuinfo" would say it was a > Noritake though. I literally tried all of the options in menuconfig, > none worked except the Generic one. > > The burner was a Yamaha 4x2x6 scsi burner. It would burn, but then the > box would come to a haltwhile fixating the disk. So i had to decide > what mattered more to me, uptime or a cd every time i wanted to burn. I > had similar problems with an IDE burner i put in, only it would crash as > soon as the burn started.
I know nothing about that particular machine but I had a very similar problem burning CDs on my pws433 and it turned out to be a bug in the ISP SCSI driver. I replaced it with the one at http://www.feral.com/isp.html and now it works fine. -- patrick
