Problems with my CDrom Drives!!
 

Help!! My cdrom drives (A burner and DVD drive technically) work fine for most tasks, except when I want to transfer large amounts of data FROM them TO my computer. I can burn CD's fine, and watch movies without a hitch. I just want to transfer some CD's back to my HDD. It will get halfway though then Stall, and never finish!! Please help.

If you are using scsi over ide for your dvd try turning it of or visa versa.
I think running scsi-ide and ide on one IDE# might give problems.
I'm not sure.

Just a lil correction: the driver name is ide-scsi, not scsi-ide. This lil mistake may lead to errors, I think.

Think about your cables. My hda boots fine then hangs, because my cable is rotten (and I don't have money for new stuff -- I don't care too much either... burn, burn, burn!!! :-)

HTH,

vfs.

I've got a similar problem. No solution as yet.

I had "hdd=ide-scsi" for the CDRW in my lilo.conf, so I added hdc=ide-scsi as well to see if it improved at all. No change.

I also added "options ide-cd ignore=hdd hdc" into the modules.conf file as recommended by someone else. No luck.

I've even changed the cable on the CD and DVD. Checked the jumpers (one is master and one slave). I've upgraded the BIOS. I've re-installed Mandrake. I got 2.4.19-24 kernel. I took 32-bit mode off those drives in the BIOS.

Still struggling....

Regards,

Andrew

Mandrake and CDROM drives
 

You might want to try disabling supermount. See man pages for exact syntax.

As my knowledge of "matters, linux" is minimal, this probably won't be of much help, but with my burner and dvd drives, when I was trying to sort an audio cd problem, it took me a while to work out that I had my apps pointing to the wrong place, my mandy 9 install insists on calling my dvd "cdrom" and the burner "cdrom2" in the removable media directory.

Whereas the actual system see's the dvd as "hdb" and the burner as "scd0". Would it not be logical for you to be able to copy the info back to your HDD from the dvd/whatever your install wants to call it, presuming that like me you dual boot with 1 HDD (or even 2 if the system wants to call your dvd "hdc")?

Probably irrelevant, but just a thought!

regards

John

bodfa,

I just had a similar problem - I can get the CDRW drive to behave normally if I boot up with the DVD unplugged.

I have to do some more testing to get them both working properly of course, but do you want to try that and let us know what happens?

Regards

A.