On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Hi Charles,
>
> Actually the Creative CDRW is set as master and always has
> been.....hmmm...wonder if I make it a slave? might force the system to
> re-install and re-evaluate what the heck it's dealing with?
>
> I dunno....I am totally lost on this one...I have sent 3 requests to
> Mandrakes support, and asked on the expert list.
You might wanna search the expert archive again. The
Creative 4224 w/AMD K2 or 3 was just answered by Civileme. He knows
his stuff. From his response I gathered (as I suspect), that this is
problem hardware, not problem OS.
--
~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Still no feasable repair
> for the problem....lots of suggestions tho and for those I am
> grateful....someone just may hit on the magical solution....
>
> think I should try swapping it to being a slave and see what it says?
>
> Jim
>
> Jim
> Is your 4224 shown in the device listings as a CDRW?
> I am guessing that , if your Zip is like mine, that you had to set it as
> Master and your CDRW is set as slave. Just to humor someone you don't know,
> and since you have tried everything else that you can think of, dissconnect
> your Zip drive and set the CDRW as Master then boot back into Linux and I
> bet the drive will work properly.
> I have a Creative 8432CDRW and it works well in Linux but I can set it
> is master because the Zip drive on this system is USB.
> Between motherboard, BIOS, and OSs you sometimes have to play around
> with the settings and hook-ups for the hardware to be seen and used as what
> it is.
>
> Charles
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 5:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner
>
>
> > Most interesting part of the whole mix...I used the Creative cdrw 4224 to
> > both burn and install the OS...LOL
> >
> > as far as the other hardware I am running an AMD K6-3 450 on a Gigabyte
> > GA-5AX mainboard...Ali Aladdin Bios with the most recent update provided
> by
> > Gigabyte with 128 megs of ram...Nvidia TNT2 video card and everything
> > performs well except the Creative cdrw 4224 drive...my zip drive is ok as
> > well as both hard drives....sure would like to get this little problem
> > worked thru....I am getting tired of manually changing cd drives to access
> a
> > cdrom in linux
> >
> > Jim
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tom Brinkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 5:18 PM
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > > Mark,
> >
> > ...the Creative
> > > cdrw 4224 is a machine that is supposed to (and does in windoze) act as
> a
> > > normal cdrom as well as a cd burner...it isn't the equipment...it is the
> > OS
> > > and the way it is attempting to address the hardware.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > you might be better served if you also wondered:
> >
> > ' it isn't the OS...it is the equipment
> > and the way it is attempting to address the OS. '
> >
> > ?? (I suspect bios/motherboard/etc is in this mix too)
> >
> > BTW, how good is Creative at providing Linux developers with
> > spec's for all the hardware they re-badge ?? or encouraging the
> > manufacturer that really made that CD-RW to do the same .... ?
> > --
> > ~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
