Strange problem with Panasonic DVD RW drive

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:38:38 +0200
Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu at people.tecnik93.com> wrote:

> 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

At least in i386 mode in which I am right now (also I have a 3200+
single core CPU).


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