Fair enough...you already have my address. Is it Feb yet? ;-)
peace,
Rog
http://www.slammingrooves.com
Registered Linux user #19071
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, civileme wrote:
> On Sunday 07 January 2001 02:05, you wrote:
> > Hey civilme, any idea if IDE CD-RWs like mine (LG CD-RW CED-8042B) will
> > work in 8.0?
> >
> >
> > peace,
> >
> > Rog
> > http://www.slammingrooves.com
> > Registered Linux user #19071
> >
> > On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, civileme wrote:
> > > On Friday 05 January 2001 22:51, you wrote:
> > >
> > > Unusual is what we want--It does no good to make a distro that runs on
> > > only "usual" machines.
> > >
> > > I will send you some software to analyse your system--I think I probably
> > > know what doesn't work.... CDRW, LS120
> > >
> > > Civileme
> > >
> > > > Well I would say I have an unusual machine.
> > > >
> > > > Its a compaq 433
> > > > LS-120 / Floppy that came stock
> > > > Cd-rom stock
> > > > Both of the above are on the Secondary IDE device.
> > > >
> > > > after market Hewlett Packard CD-RW
> > > > after market US Robotics/3Com modem
> > > > Parallel Port Zip Drive Plus
> > > > Agfa Snap Scan USB Scanner that Mandrake 7.2 recognizes but no software
> > > > does.
> > > >
> > > > I still haven't gotten everything to run on this though, can't imagine
> > > > trying out beta...lol.
>
> Well, the way to assure they do is to be a tester. Actually they sometimes
> work, if set on the master position of the IDE bus, enabled for DMA with
> hdparm, and do not share the ide channel with a standard CDROM. By opening
> this form of testing we hope to achieve far broader compatibility with
> hardware. We cannot configure anything special for the LG if all we have
> here is Plextor.
>
> Civileme
>
>
>
