Installed a DVD burner on RHL9, and now the machine reboots [SOLVED]

[Ed Greshko]

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 01:53, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:

> Well, moving the dvd burner to the slave on the primary channel (/dev/hdb)
> seems to have done the trick.  I've been able to run two backups now to
> dvd+rw media.  I don't understand why hda=ide-scsi would crash the system
> when hdb=ide-scsi works fine.

Well, I agree that doesn't make sense.  I've a dual Xeon system here and
my grub.conf contains:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-15.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/1 hda=ide-scsi
hdb=ide-scsi

And I've no problems on it or others with similar systems.  I get you
just chalk it up to PFM.

Ed

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