RE: [PLUG] Re: CDWriter hangs the computer during fixation

["Bradley Molnar" <brad@student.usyd.edu.au>]

>Well in my experience before, placing the cdburner and the hard disk
>together on the same ide ribbon does appear to "hang" the computer;

Same thing happens if you put a cd/dvd drive and a cdburner on the same ide
bus and try to do a disk to disk copy.  This is highly recommended against
and will most likly cause buffer underruns.  The same is most likly true in
the above case w/ the HD and cd-r on the same bus.  To fix this problem,
switch one device to the other ide bus (make sure that your booting HD is
still the master of ide bus 0 [the primary ide], etc, etc, etc).  No, I do
not know why this is a problem, I just know that it can be (especially if
the comp is a couple years old, I used a P3 550 that had this problem and it
is 3 years old).

Also note that if you switch around disks, you may have to change entries in
the fstab (and other confs that save the location of the cd-drive).  It
_may_ no longer be the same hd<#> as it was before.

-brad


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