On Friday 20 August 2004 12:31 pm, Nathan wrote: > Okay Listers, > > > I've read extensivily on xl8r, and asked a few questions on the list > regarding my OEM LTR-40125S CDRW Drive. > So far the only way I can get the system to boot is to set the drive a > master and boot from a cd. If I don't have a cd in the drive the system > hangs on startup with just the grey screen and frozen mouse pointer.. > I've tried setting my main hd (Quatum Fireball) as the only master and > the CDRW and second harddrive (WD) to slaves.. No dice.. I kept the same hd > as master and set the other two to cable select.. Still nothing.. > I've even put both hd's on one bus and the cdrw by it's self on the > other to no avail.. I've looked on the internet for the elusive firmware > update and have not yet been able to find it.. I'm about ready to give up > on this dang thing! Any suggestion? > > TIA, > > > -- > Nathan Templeton > G3/300, 8600/300, 7200/120, 6400/180 > OS 7.1 -10.1, Win 3.1 - XP, SuSE, YDL, Mandrake, MKLinux, Debian > Hotel - Tango - Hotel
Just a thought Nathan, I recently purchased a Lite-On CDRW/DVD combo drive for a new P4 PC I was building, and could not get it to work either. I put in a standard IDE CD-ROM drive which worked fine. Turned out the brand-new drive was bad. Got a replacement drive and it works fine now. Just a message from Doug... --------------------------------------------- http://users.adelphia.net/~slugg0/ -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
