CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo SCSI Test

[Paul Taylor]

Speaking of SCSI...I have a two SCSI Plextor CD drives, one is a CD-RW
and one is Ultrawide 40X CD-ROM. I'm using an Adaptech 2940 SCSI card,
the two IBM SCSI driver are recognized but the CD drives are not. One
uses the 50-pin and one uses 68-pin (as do the IBM drives).

I've tweaked and tweaked the Adaptech SCSI BIOS and the drives are not
recognized.

Both CD drives have <10 hours of use in the past 4 years so they can't
be broken.

Someone know an easy way for me to tell if the drives are broken or not,
it seems improbable that both "break" while in storage for 3 years.

Red Hat 9 is currently installed on the machine.

Thanks,
Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net] On Behalf Of Jonathan Hutchins
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 8:17 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo

On Tuesday, December 23, 2003 09:09 am, Rich Edelman wrote:

>... the cdrecord author doesn't like that [handling IDE directly], and 
>he  lets you know that.

What an ass.  Few of us can afford the purist SCSI drives he gets to
work 
with, but in spite of the fact that IDE CDR drives have been the norm
for 
years he refuses to face reality.