Strange problem with Panasonic DVD RW drive

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:06:04 +0800
Geoff Glasson <g_glasson at jimali.dyndns.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 23 February 2006 20:32, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:15:31 +0800
> >
> <snip>
> 
> > In safe mode you have hw.ata.atapi_dma=0. Try setting it to 0 at
> > loader prompt and boot -v and see if you can mount the CD. Try
> > changing the cable anyway.
> >
> > What MB/chip-set ?
> 
> Thanks for the quick response.  Turning off DMA has had the desired
> effect.

Heh. What about the cable ?

> FYI: I have an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard with AMD Athlon(tm) 64
> X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ (2010.31-MHz K8-class CPU).

I have the Premium variant and I don't have this problem with an ASUS
DRW-1608P

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