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Re: [LUG] My CD burner is b0rked :-(



IIRC CD Burners are recommended to be on the Master channel (at least
under Windows anyway).  As Primary is always taken with a hard disk that
usually means Secondary Master.


On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 07:39, Simon Waters wrote:
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> Julian Hall wrote:
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> > BTW I'm assuming you changed the jumper setting for the drive from
> > Secondary to Primary if necessary?
> 
> Also when you are reading is it using a SCSI driver or an IDE driver. If
> IDE maybe you forgot to ensure that lilo.conf has an "hdb=ide-scsi" on
> the append line.
> 
> Quite a lot of manufacturers recommend the CD burners be on their own
> IDE channel, although I've noticed most just work anyway, certainly
> under Linux.
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