worth a try! I'll put the k6-2 400 from my wife's machine in here and see if it fixes the problem and I will try the supermount disable and see what that says too...thank you so much for taking the time to reply! Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Civileme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 12:28 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Creative CDRW 4224 problems! Jim wrote: > I am still a newbie, but couldn't seem to get help > there with this problem....so guys (and gals) PLEASE > if you know the solution to this if you could put it > in newbie terminology....I would be eternally > grateful! :) I installed MD 7.1, I have a creative > cdrw 4224 and I can play music on it > just fine under linux, however when I go to access it > for files, the light > comes on and after a few minutes I get an error > message that the contents of > the directory /mnt/cdrom can not be displayed....now > the weird....I can't > eject the cd and the light stays on. If I don't > completely power down the > machine the cdrom isn't recognized by the bios on the > reboot. If I > completely shut down the power for the recomended 15 > seconds and turn it > back on my cdrom is back in the boot list again. > > Can anyone help me with all this weirdness? > > I am running an AMD K6-3 450, 128 mb ram, on a > gigabyte MB, with the Ali > Aladdin V AGPset rev 5. > > I have had problems with the cd-rw in linux from the > begining and haven't > gotten it fixed, but it never removed it from the > bios before...what gives > here? > > Jim I usually don't reply to html but I saw this title in my trash just before I dumped it. This is unlikely to be a software problem. Offhand I would say the K6-3 may be the culprit. The tri-level cache never did work well enough for AMD to continue it, and what you describe could be explained by something not being flushed from the cache.. I have an identical CDRW running on the same GigaByte board with a K6-2 and I have had it there since 6.1 and now into 7.1 and I am unable to duplicate your error. To check for a software problem, login as root, raise a Konsole and type supermount disable Then physically mount a data CD and try to read the directory by clicking on the CD icon. If that does not work, your problem is almost certainly hardware. For the hardware problem, the remedies might be as follows: 1. Go to www.gigabyte.com and download and flash the latest version of the BIOS, especially if it supports ort is purported to support, the K6-3. 2. Try using a K6-2 Civileme
