Don't confuse the goldstar cdrw drives with the driver for the goldstar non-ide 2x and 4x drives. You want the ide/atapi support not the gs420 cdrom support. Before atapi was popular there were many nonstandard cdrom interfaces; Mitsumi, pannasonic, goldstar, Teac, philips cm206 and sonie. All the modern cdrw drives post 2000 are scsi3/mmc compatible and most new models are ide/atapi. Many people will tell you that scsi cd writers are the easiest under Linux; and that the ide/atapi ones are extreme trouble. This is not true once the kernel support is configured. In fact; I have a Liteon 40x writer that is ide and it rips better and burns better than my Yamaha scsi burner. Also in relation to a previous message you posted; the ppa is the old interface for zip drives; the new parallel use im support. Both these modules are included in the standard kernel and often using the drivers on a cd can actually downgrade versions of drivers since the cd was pressed possibly before the kernel you may have had was released. I found that drivers for the backpack ide tape drive I had were newer in my kernel and worked better after a recompile than the ones I grabbed from the backpack website. Regards, Kerry. On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 06:05:41PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Thanks, it looks like I'm going to have to build a kernel. It turns out > the cdrw is a goldstar and boot images exist for this cdrw but not modules > so far as I'm able to tell. > > -- > Jude <dashielljt(at)gmpexpress-dot-net> > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au
