On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, ericb@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I have the Pioneer DVR-105 drive as well, and have no trouble with > it whatsoever. I've used it both as a master and a slave on > different channels. If there's anything in particular you would like > me to check out, let me know. > > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA > hdc: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-105, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive The chipset of your IDE controller would be helpful. I tried the built-in VIA chipset instead of the Silicon Image (SIIG) controller, and Linux went berserk, crashing roughly after a few seconds (similar to when the bus resets happened on the SI bus). I also tried the other suggestion in this thread of setting PIO to 4, it didn't help. In the end, I took a 3.5 Firewire enclosure and hooked up the 5.25 DVD-RW drive to it; wrapped a tie-wrap around the whole thing. Over Firewire from the same drive, I got no errors at all on full 4 GB burns, and it's immediately visible as a SCSI drive instead of the ide-scsi driver. I'm not really sure what to do now. I'm tempted to stick with Firewire (maybe I should upgrade to 2.5 though), but the enclosure could be an electrical hazard since it's stuck open, clamped around the drive. I think I'll try a third IDE controller in my system, just for the DVD-RW, and see how that works. Thanks Ted -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
