Hi,
My trusty old Philips 3610 CD writer gave up the ghost two weeks
ago, so I treated myself to a new 12 speed AOpen 1232A and
installed it in my BP6 based workstation.
Unfortunately, this did not go as smoothly as planned..
The symptoms:
- BIOS detects and reports the AOpen
- System boots almost normally; the SCSI emulation layer does
report a bus reset on the AOpen's SCSI id.
- Pressing the eject button nicely ejects the tray. Put in a disk,
and you'll have to push the tray in manually.
- Any access (Writing, attempting to mount a disk) results in
multiple SCSI errors (haven't got the output here at work, but I
do remember a lot of bus resets again. cdrdao reports the drive
name as a semi random string.
- Booting windows 98, and clicking on the drive results in a
immediate system crash.
Things I've tried so far:
- The drive was tested in another system (Don't know the details,
it's not my system) and found to work flawlessly.
- Connected just this AOpen drive to the secondary IDE as master;
no luck.
- Reinstalled my old philips drive: detected without problems,
could mount and copy a complete CD rom. (Couldn't write one, but
cdrdao did report the drive correctly.)
- Changed master/slave order of drives on this IDE controller : no
luck either.
- Replaced IDE cable etc. No luck either
The configuration:
- ABit BP6 earliest revision, dual 433 Mhz Celeron, not overclocked
- 128 MByte Ram
- No name Riva TNT2 based Video card
- Two Quantum Bigfoot hard drives on primary IDE
- Soundblaster es1371
- No name Ne2000 network card
- Creative DVD Rom Player.
- Power supply 235 Watts.
System has always been stable, but I did have to replace an earlier
Creative DVD Rom, because the drive failed to initialize properly
most of the time ( it kept flashing its lights, and would not be
recognized by the BIOS)
Any suggestions as to what I should try next ?
Thanks in advance,
TimT.
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