Hello, I don't think this is a newbie question, as I've already RTFM'ed and STFW'ed. my appology to anyone who does.
synopsis: ------------ attempting to use both dvd-drive and CDRW on same ide causes the first (DVD) to be able to read only the TOC of a disk (i.e. I can see the contents but copying to the HD fails) system: ---------- cpu: athlon XP 1700+ mother board: asus A7V266-E-sound HD: WD800BB 80 GB 7200 RPM UATA 100 2 MB Cache as primary master /dev/hda DVD: asus E616 DVD-ROM as secondary master /dev/hdc CDRW: yamaha CRW4416EZ as secondary slave /dev/hdd mouse and keyboard are PS/2 ones. OS: win 98 and RH 7.2 descriprion: --------------- I bought a new machine (full description bellow) with an asus DVD reader , and installed both linux and win 98. I later tried to install my old yamaha CDRW drive on the same ide. the BIOS recognizes both my DVD and the CDRW, but lets me use only PIO (3) for the old CDRW drive. then , when I try to read a disk from my DVD drive, I can see the contents (both in win98 explorer and with linux ls command) but cannot read/copy the contents of the disk. any word of wisdom will be appreciated. -- -- regards +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + Guy Baruch , Plasma Laboratory, Weizmann Institue. + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + phone: 972-8-934-2211 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- "to Copy Protect is to rob the future..." http://www.bricklin.com/robfuture.htm ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
