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From:Sam Thomas
Date:24 Jun 2001 at 00:01:46
Subject:CDRrrgghhhW Mk2!

Hiya all..

Well I have finally been back to the PC shop and now am the owner of a IDE
Plextor 16x20x40 Burnproof CD-Rewriter but unfortunately I'm still getting
the same problem as before :-/

I have it connected to my PowerflyerGold with a 15Gig Hard disk on the
Primary Channel as Master and the Plextor is Master on the Secondary
channel.

The drive works fine when running at PIO0 (You can adjust PIO Speeds with
the Flyer software) but as soon as I bump up the PIO speed to 3 (or higher)
the system can not recognise the drive definition correctly at all :-/

At PIO0 I get the following information from 'Mounter'
PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1610A 1.02

but.. If I go to PIO3 or above, this gets 'corrupted' to: (rough guess)
PL&*TOR CD-$ %1-#16(0A D%3r

I have tried new cables (UDMA100 cables) and that didnt help things, I have
also used other normal CDROM drives on the Interface and a Hard disk, all
at PIO5 without a problem - It appears to be only CDRW drives that are
constantly giving me the same error as above.

I have even gone as far actually buying a New A1200 system (Magic Pack) and
a New PowerFlyer to solve the problem, but guess what, not even that helped
me! :-(
What I dont understand is that I have been talking to people that are
running the same drive as me without a problem at all all on the same i/f
and processor. It even does the same as aboce if I remove the 060 and the
Mediator from my system.

I have tried Elbox's support but as everyone knows, they dont have the best
customer support in the world so I may be waiting sometime. :-/

Please, if you have ANY ideas how to get it running right can you let me
know! I'm seriously considering buying into another computer now and
getting some Linux running on it :-(




Sam 'Stom' Thomas

http://www.amiga-mediator.co.uk


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