On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 13:40:31 Trent W. Buck wrote:
My knee-jerk reaction is:
WTF why are you using all those long-dead buses? A brand-new SATA burner is $20. It's faster and cheaper to try that before debugging an old PATA or SCSI burner.
Except if your motherboard has PCI-X and SCSI it probably predates ubiquitous SATA, so you'd have to replace the motherboard and probably CPU as well, and now I just want to go cry in a corner.
I have a stack of DVD drives that I don't immediately need. If anyone needs drives I could bring 2 of the type you prefer (IDE or SATA) to the next LUV meeting, then you can return the one that's least suitable for your purposes. NB if anyone takes me up on this please make a note of what (if anything) was wrong with the drive you returned. Most systems I run don't need to write to CDs and DVDs so any drive that's read-only can be used for that purpose. Also if anyone with such problems wants to bring their PC to the Beginners' SIG I could supply the parts and people there could fix it for you. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/