Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3491 mails)

[Hans Krueger <hans007@xxxxxxxxxx>]

sounds like you have hardware starting to fail
my 2 cents
motherboard or bad cable
On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 08:31, Max Webb wrote:

> 	Hi, Im having a strange problem with a new replacement CD-Writer.  the new 
> drive always appears and works in windoze, but when I REBOOT with SuSE Linux 
> 8.2 the drive is not detected and I can use it. The only way the drive is 
> detected with linux is if the system is shut down and then booted from an off 
> state (cold boot). Then it is detected at boot time and I can use it, but as 
> soon a I reboot through Linux it wont work anymore.
> 	I have never had this problem with CD-RWs drives and Linux before. It seems 
> to be a software configuration problem because A: the drive works perfectly 
> after any type of halt/reboot from windows to windows, but not with linux.
> B: After a cold boot from linux the drive works perfectly until the linux 
> system is rebooted. What gives? Please help me get this fixed.
> Thanks so much.
> 
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