Re: CD Problem

[Ian Wraith <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

Hello yet again

>.. and, of course, the associated software. I presume the CD drive is in
>full working order; generally, cdroms either work or they don't, there's
>not a lot of inbetween. So that really leaves the IDE controller. As I
>understand it, you're now using the second on-board IDE controller - this
>would indicate you don't have hardware or driver problems, because if it
>was a driver problem your harddrive wouldn't work, and if it was a
>hardware problem it wouldn't work in Windows either.

Yes the new cd seems to work fine. I installed it when I still had RH 6.0
checked it could read data from discs and played music CD's and thought
that was that. Looking back I wish I had tested it on MP3 files.

>That kinds of leaves configuration, then. I can't really think of anything
>else to explain it. My gut feeling would be that there is some cruft left
>over from the SB16 days - you might have installed all the new software
>correctly, but have you told it to stop looking at the soundcard for the
>CDROM drive? I've no idea how you configure this under linux (never done
>it before), but I imagine isapnp would be the software in question? I
>would imagine that there's something, somewhere, that refers to the
>SB16CDROM, and the blips could be when the machine is trying to do
>something to the new drive with old software.

The unknown factor is the new RH installation utility Kudzu. Thats the
trouble with this kind of automatic program you never know quite what
they have done. I shall look into its workings further it may leave a
record of that it has been upto.

Thanks for your help.

Regards

Ian

i.wraith@sheffield.ac.uk

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