[Tfug] DVD-RW part II

[Jeffry Johnston]

I had a DVD(+-RW) drive that I could simply not use to boot up with (CD).
What I had to do is boot from a floppy, then have that boot the DVD.  When
that DVD drive died I got another brand.. now I have no trouble booting off
a CD (same computer/BIOS, go figure).  The program is Smart Boot Manager.  I
think Ubuntu ships it on their CD's, that's probably where I got the disk
image.  Of course if you can't read CD's after boot then this doesn't apply
so feel free to ignore this suggestion :).

Jeff

On Nov 10, 2007 6:04 PM, John Karns <johnkarns at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/10/07, Predrag Punosevac <punosevac72 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear Earl,
> > Thank you so much.
> > The pins on my DVD-RW are set for slave. I really doupt that setting
> them
> > to center or master would make any difference.
>
> PMFBI, but my recollection of the workings of IDE devices is that the
> slave device on any one channel uses the controller electronics of the
> master peripheral.  Also, the mobo IDE chip is a rather dumb
> interface, so the controller smarts are in the electroncs of the
> peripheral.
>
> All that implies that you need a master on each IDE channel.
>
> HTH,
>
> --
> John
>
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