CDRW Ricoh MP7083A crashing the whole system

[Pierre Thibault]

  Jonathan Carter a écrit :
> Hi Pierre
>
> On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 08:49 -0400, Pierre Thibault wrote:
>   
>> System description
>>   Hardware: IBM 300PL, 512MB RAM, 60 GB HD, CDROM, CDRW, 2 network cards
>>   Software: Kubuntu 2.6.15-23-powerpc
>>     
>
> How sure are you that it's the CD drive that's crashing the system? As
> far as I know, the IBM 300PL computers are Intel based Pentium II and
> III's, which means that booting from a Kubuntu PowerPC CD would most
> certainly crash the system.
>   
Sorry, I made an error. I am using two computers with Kubuntu and I took 
this information from the wrong machine. Here's what I have:

System description
  Hardware: IBM 300PL Pentium III 500MHz, 512MB RAM, 60 GB HD, CDROM, 
CDRW, 2 network cards
  Software: Kubuntu 2.6.15-26-386

I'm tried to install Kubuntu on 386. I played with the physical 
configuration of the machine to try to solve the problem. I was only 
able to install when I've tried to install using another CD unit. So, I 
think this here something with this unit and Linux. It works well with 
Windows. I think Windows has the drivers for it but the material is not 
perfectly Atapi so Linux is having a hard time.

How much I am sure that it is the drive that's crashing the system? I 
would say 95% sure. What else it could be? I could the combination of 
the unit and the PC itself but I works with Windows. It could be not 
just this drive but a family of similar drive having the same problem 
but this is not much different. I don't know what else it could be.
> Have you tried booting from an XF86 CD?
>   
Yes of course. I have X86 machine.

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A+

Pierre

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