On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 01:35 -0200, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > You might want to first check your BIOS settings for the CDROM drive, > and then the data cable. I really don't think there is such a thing > as an incompatible CDROM, but I have seen some BIOS settings making > CDROM drives behave weirdly. Don't forget you can completely _disable_ the sucker in the BIOS. Yeah, you can't boot from it, but you only need that during an install. In fact, I keep some old Promise Ultra33 PCI cards around, with the BIOS DIP package yanked off, explicitly for problematic CD-ROMs that have issues during the POST or early in the on-chipset support. -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx http://thebs413.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------ Some things (or athletes) money can't buy. For everything else there's "ManningCard."
New CD-ROM drive causes kernel panic
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