Thanks. Nice to hear I'm not alone in the world! At 11:43 PM 7/31/2000 +0200, you wrote: > >On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 21:49 +0200, Robert Fox wrote: > > > I have the following: Adaptec 2940 UW > >Mine is a DawiControl with SymbiosLogic chip > > > > SCSI ID 3 is a Plextor PX-32TS 32X CD-ROM > >Mine is a Plextor UltraPlex40max >As CDRW I have a Plextor PlexWriter 4/2/2 > > > When I boot the Mandrake 7.1 CD - after the bus scan, it asks which SCSI > > CDROM to use, scsi0 or scsi1 > > > > I have tried both, but the follow occurs when I try scsi0 (the plextor > drive) > > <4> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi 0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 > > <4> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi 0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 > > <4> sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 6x/6x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray > > <7> VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0) > > scsi0:0:3:-1 Unexpected busfree, LASTPHASE = 0xa0, SEQADDR = 0x15d > > > > Then a timeout occurs and it says unable to read scsi0 - check that CD is > > in the tray > >Same here but later. I get over the preliminaries until >partitioning and formatting is done. When it comes to choose the >packages for installation I get the same timeout as you. > > > The system work fine with other OSs including Mandrake 7.0 NO PROBLEM!! > >Same here. It works perfect with MDK 6.x, 7.0 and 7.1. It just >dies during installation. >I posted this twice here and to Mandrake directly. Never got an >answer on the list, just this single "old or low-budget >hardware" mail which should be ignored. > >I did a work-around with a harddisk-installation. OK, but that's >not perfect, is it? How can I do a demo of the Ease of >Installation when I have to start making a bootdisk and copying >the files from a perfectly working CD-ROM to a harddisk for a >start? > >wobo >-- >GPG-Fingerprint: FE5A 0891 7027 8D1B 4E3F 73C1 AD9B D732 A698 82EE >For Public Key mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: GPG-Request >------------------------------------------------------------------- >ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html ********************************************************************** (�`�.��.-> F O X Consulting Services <-.��.���) Voice: +1 (650) 369-7369 Fax: +1 (650) 429-2122 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] FCS Web Page: http://foxconsult.com ** Currently in Europe - Contact: +49/172-9600938 GSM Mobile ** **********************************************************************
