I have a dual boot system (windows XP & SuSe Linux 10.1 - 32bit) on HP Pavilion 1521 Desktop with following configuration

D820 - 2.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB, SATA, 16X DVD-RW (Lite ON DVDRW SHM-165H6S HP10)

The drive works fine in windows boot, is able to read & write any media.

As soon as I insert any CD/DVD in linux, the system locks up and I am left with resetting the system. Even if I boot the system with any media inside the drive, as soon as it boots, system locks up.

What could be the problem? Please help me to resolve it.

ajit,
Indore

Hi ajit,

What does it mean by system locks up?
If it gets hung, see all hardware is on Hardware compatibility list.

If it locks cdrom / dvdrom

try running following command in console.
eject



Aniruddha

Hi! Aniruddh

The system hangs and only option left is to reset it!

I tried installing autofs, it didn't help. Enabled DMA on somebody's advice but the problem is still the same.


ajit

Hi Ajit,

Why don't you give a try to some other distribution too?




Aniruddha

Hi! Aniruddha,

I tried Fedora core 5 & 6, RedHat Linux Enterprise 3 & 4.

Fedora passes the screen of media check and hangs the system with a blue screen filled with odd characters.

RHEL 3 & $ give a peculiar error : "An error has occured - no valid devices were found on which to create new file system, please check your hard drive for the cause of problem". This error comes irrespective of my choosing automatic partition or manual partition and The system reboots !

I have some scientific coeds which have been verified for RedHat only. I prefer either of SuSe or FEdora/RedHat.


what could be the problem with DVD writer? It is installing SuSe linux and then once the system installation is complete, it does not work?

Some forum suggested changing CDROM parameter from 'ATAPI' to 'SCSI simulation' and see whether it works, I don't know how to do it?

thanks for your reply,
ajit