Hi,
>From the subject, you will get a good idea of my message :-)
I bought a Buslogic Flashpoint controller a while ago and then a Ricoh
MP6201S CD/RW drive.
The two never worked very well together, though when I was using them
under Debian 1.3 they did what I wanted them to do. They wouldn't work
with anything but mkisofs and cdrecord and as I didn't want to make
music CD's this was fine. I upgraded to Debian 2.0 a few months ago and
backed up my drives etc before doing so to CDROM. Since the upgrade, I
have been unable to write to the CDROM.
I have applied patches from the manufacturer to the PROM on both the
SCSI card and the CDROM, I have also tried using Kernel 2.0.36 and I
still can't write CD's. I can read them fine.
I realise the Flashpoint controller support is flaky under Linux but I
did have the system working. I now can't write anything to the drive.
It may be a processor/speed problem. I've been in touch with the
developer of cdrecord and also with the unofficial Ricoh site but have
not had any success there. I've been through all the settings in my BIOS
and in the SCSI card bios and can't see anything that would cause the
problems. In short it all looks fine (+ it did partially work before).
What I'm trying to find out is if there is anybody on the list using the
same combination of HW and if they had any success. To summarise :-
SCSI Controller : Buslogic Flashpoint
SCSI CD/RW : Ricoh MP6201S
Processor : AMD K5 running at 90MHz.
Regards,
Dave Restall
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