Hi,

I have an old Desktop Pentium MMX 200 MHz, 32 MB RAM with Windows 98 installed. The original hard disc of 2.1 GB has been replaced with 6 GB. I have installed Ubuntu 6.06 server (in dual boot with Windows98) on one partition and also created a Linux swap partition of 256 MB.

I have also done frugal install of Damn Small Linux on this machine.

The machine had CD-R which I wanted to change to CD-RW. One of my friend gave me a DVD-ROM drive saying that it was working as CD-RW also on Windows XP, although, the specification says that it is only a DVD-ROM/CD-ROM drive.

I have also checked on Google search and found that the drive can work as CD-RW even on Windows 98. The drive is:
I tried many CD Burners for Windows98 and none of them could detect it as CD-RW. Then I looked for suitable driver, found one but the Readme file told me that the drive should be connected as "Secondary Master". I found that the drive was connected as "Primary Slave" and Hard Disc was connected as "Secondary Master". I tried to reverse the connection but could not succeed.

Then I decided to try it on Damn Small Linux. First I tried through the GUI, then I tried the commandline "cdrecord" and found that "cdrecord" finally says that:
I also tried "cdrecord" on Ubuntu 6.06 and got similar results.

Is it possible that unless I connect the drive as "Secondary Master" it is not going to work even on Linux?

kagashe

This drive appears to be just a reader.