PlexWriter 24/10/40a FC1

[David Nedrow]

[Sorry if this is a dupe]

John,

Try explicitly disabling DMA for the drive (man hdparm). If this fixes 
your problems, you can make the change "permanent" by copying 
/etc/sysconfig/harddisks to /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhdX (eg. 
/etc/harddiskhdd) and set USE_DMA=0 in that file.

Note also that you shouldn't have to use SCSI emulation any longer, 
since cdrecord has support for IDE burners now. Try "cdrecord dev=ATAPI 
--scanbus" and you should get a list of the ATAPI device nodes.

-David

On Jun 12, 2004, at 14:49, John Thompson wrote:

> My Teac SCSI CD writer recently died, and being unable to find a 
> similar
> replacement without spending a fortune, I eventually settled on a
> PlexWriter 24/10/40a ATAPI drive to replace it.  I've installed it and
> the kernel finds it without problems using the ide-scsi module: