On Thursday 10 July 2003 12:31 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday July 10 2003 09:30 am, Michael wrote: > > Supported modes: TAO PACKET RAW/R16 > > > > ok, so what does all this tell us about my setup? thanks! > > That last line tells you the drive won't do DAO, so it's > usefulness is sort'a limited. I'd get a different drive. You should > see somethin like > Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P > RAW/R96R > > (SessionAtOnce, SAO is DiskAtOnce, DAO).
uhhhh, so there's no way to make my cd-rw drive work? because it worked to do the install. Tom, my jaw is on the floor right now. lemme clarify please....you're saying there's no way it's going to work? as in, none at all? not even with different versions of linux, like maybe something other than mandrake 9.1? what type of future possibilities do i have for it working? like, i'd have to wait until someone changes the programming to support my (and drives similar to mine) to make them work? i'm just shocked, because the drive is listed as being a compatible drive. the best it's done so far is when i've tried to access a CD in teh drive, a window pops up to tell me how much % of the CD has loaded, and it'll lock up during that. i don't have the money to go buy another drive right now, i'm stuck with what i've got. as far as i can forsee, i wouldn't be able to replace this drive for a few months, even though there are some really cheap ones availible right now, money is tight. is there a possibility that due to maybe an error somewhere that i'm getting that "TAO PACKET RAW/R16" and it could be corrected? i had some problems during the install with the cd drive, and it kept telling me it couldn't access a cd in the drive, came up with options for accessing it (a list of them, ide.ro, scsi-something, things like that). after about 8 tries to get it to access the cd in the drive, it finally did, but i don't remember what was picked when it finally accessed it. and this is strange, because the first time i installed mdk9.1 it went w/out a hitch, completely smooth (that is, once i got the CDs burned right). i remember seeing a post maybe last week that said "install results may vary" and i remember reading it, but i'm a little fuzzy on the contents of that thread. like i had previously stated, i think the CD drive worked on my first installation of mdk9.1, i can't remember exactly. and the only reason i formatted it out was because i installed a 2nd hard drive, moved the first hard drive from the secondary IDE to the primary, made it master, put the 2nd hard drive on the same ide channel and made it slave, and was having problems with getting into linux. i ended up just formatting it out to make my life easy instead of fighting it to make it work and started from scratch. i really havn't done much configuring to the current install....nothing that i couldn't remember how to do again, mostly with the desktop setup, mail, things like that. is a format and re-installation a possibility? is there ANYTHING else i can do? rescue the installation? sit and wait for another kernel to be written or modified? shout out a few e-mails to those that can write kernels and see if they can make a correction or make modifications? at this point, i'm trying to find out if there's just a possibility that something went wrong on the install of the OS and it could be corrected. i really don't want to believe that this CD drive won't work with linux. there HAS to be a way...right? i thought that was the beauty of linux.....if something didn't work you could "get your hands dirty" and make it work somehow.... i'm rambling, lemme know what you think. thank you. Mike
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