Re: [LUG] Plug'n Play???

[lee quick <leequick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Trevor Sansom wrote:

> This weekend I purchased a DVD rom by LG to replace my
> aging x2 speed CD rom. Unpluged one & plugged in the
> other. Booted up SuSe 7.1 & regognised immediately,
> including scsi emulation for cdburning. Tried Win98 to
> no avail, tried all I knew, still no joy. Reinstalled
> Win98, now ensoniq 1370 sound card not recognised,
> luck SuSe recognised it tho' otherwise I wouldn't know
> what card it was. Spent afternoon on net downloading
> ensoniq drivers & got one to work. Reinstalled EASY CD
> & CD Create, still OK.Loaded AOL 6 Ok after only 6
> restarts. Installed Trust Roller ball, WIndows won't
> load anymore. Pissed around for a few more hours, in &
> out of safe mode, etc. still no joy. To be fair this
> happened once before & was only cured by a new mouse
> but not this time. Installed Win95 and am still
> reinstalling vital packages one at a time with
> assosciated restarts.
DMA for a dvd springs to mind,windows may have your new drive in PIO 
mode4(which the CD burner will more than likely be set to!) and double 
check the drive jumper settings for master/slave set up..

> You may wonder why i'm bothering with Windows
> anything. It's because I use Telewest (nee Eurobell)
> for my telephone and like unmetered access, so have to
> use AOL wiht its binding to Windows. Can anyone tell
> me of a solution to thios problem?
>
> Anyway the undisputed Pnp champion was undoubtedly
> SuSe 7.1 by a very long mile.
>
> Trevor Sansom 
>
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