Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jun 2004 14:03:59 +0200 | From | Erik Mouw <> | Subject | Re: Multiple CDR's on an IDE based system |
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On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:54:23AM +0000, Hamish Whittal wrote: > I have a machine that has 3 CDRW's in it. I have tried many different > configurations of these drives on various IDE controllers, but am still > having some problems. > > I will try to sketch the scenario: > CDRW1 slave on controller with HDD > CDRW2 as master on second on-board IDE controller > CDRW3 as master on additional PCI IDE controller > > (I have also tried adding 2 PCI IDE controllers, and putting each CDRW > as master on each of these controllers, but I get the FIFO buffer > dropping to 0% very soon after starting a write).
What kind of PCI controller was that? I've seen that kind of behaviour with Promise IDE cards.
> My machine is a Debian linux IDE based machine. The specs of the machine > are as follows: > CPU : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz > 2 IDE controllers, single 120GB HDD. > Additional PCI IDE controller
What are the *exact* specs: what kind of IDE controller, chipsets revisions, etc. See the file REPORTING-BUGS in your kernel source tree.
Erik
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