On Wednesday 30 November 2005 3:41 pm, David Johanson wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion!
I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't think of this and a bit frustrated that SuSE support did not so suggest. I did jump out and download the latest firmware upgrade, moving my drive from 1.0e to 2.1a. Even though the description of the firmware upgrade included vastly improved performance when reading from dual layered disks, it made no difference. I'm not surprised however as attempting to install using the single layer CDs fails on both CD-ROM drives. The Plextor Plexwriter is up to date with it's firmware.
Well, one more troubleshooting step out of the way... You've done the manual, text mode install and the FailSafe option. Did you go through the list of installed driver modules to verify you need all of them? Wondering if maybe the wrong one is getting loaded or if you need to load a different one from a driver disk because SUSE 10.0 is loading a newer, broken or different driver than 9.3 or the other OSes you have installed. Stan