Why do i have to move my hardware around for it to work in suse and in windows it worked fine with out moving it around? Windows is just a test to see if things are working or not. On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 10:54:27 -0500 Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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Why did i have to do that to get it working? Windows XP had no problems at all.

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Are you not running linux. Windoz of any nature has *nothing* to do with anything and will *not* tell you that hardware is *good*. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery

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I was trying anything to see why my dvd writer was not being detected. It was working fine on my previouse mother board on ide1 master. With my new mother board with sata support it was not getting detected. Its just strange to get it working i had to make my dvd write slave. The problem came in with the sata. When i disable sata my dvd writer will work again on ide1 master. Is there a bug in suse 9.1 or did i do something wrong? I would just like to know why did i have to make my dvd writer slave. Is there a fix for it? The logs did not show anything. Thanks Regards On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 11:41:09 -0500 Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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Why do i have to move my hardware around for it to work in suse and in windows it worked fine with out moving it around? Windows is just a test to see if things are working or not.

again: top posting forgiven, full quote removed.

Windoz is *not* a test to show proper operation of hardware.

Why *did* you "move" your hardware around, it was *your* decision? There must be a basis for moving it. I did not see anyone here recommend that action.

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On Saturday 18 June 2005 17:14, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:

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again: top posting forgiven, full quote removed. You are way more forgiving than I would be.. And of course, the OP abuses such forgiveness without hesitation.

When will people get tired of resurrecting this same meaningless argument which has already been argued to death in hundreds of postings on this list? Bryan ******************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 9.2 Professional KDE 3.3.0 KMail 1.7.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ********************************************************

On Sunday 19 June 2005 04:20, Doug McGarrett wrote:

About top/bottom posting:

I hate to say this, but could this thread be deleted? The original thread apparently had nothing to do with netiquette, or however you spell it, or with top/bottom answering.

Personally, I don't care about where answering is done. Actually, the most informative are interactive, with the answers interspersed with the questions. But this back-biting kind of posting is not only wasting bandwidth, but must be turning off people who might find use of this fine list.

--doug

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On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 23:09 -0400, Bryan Tyson wrote:

On Saturday 18 June 2005 17:14, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:

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again: top posting forgiven, full quote removed. You are way more forgiving than I would be.. And of course, the OP abuses such forgiveness without hesitation.

When will people get tired of resurrecting this same meaningless argument which has already been argued to death in hundreds of postings on this list?

Bryan

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On Saturday 18 June 2005 06:21 pm, Kevanf1 wrote:

On 18/06/05, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* it clown [06-18-05 11:24]:

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Why do i have to move my hardware around for it to work in suse and in windows it worked fine with out moving it around? Windows is just a test to see if things are working or not.

again: top posting forgiven, full quote removed.

Windoz is *not* a test to show proper operation of hardware.

Perfectly reasonable course of action trying it with another known working operating system. SuSE is obviously infinitely better than MS's offerings but when something is not working then it is good to try it in Window$ simply to check that it is not a hardware issue. Of course, he could have just as easily used a live CD/DVD like Knoppix. But, if it didn't work in that would it mean that the hardware was broken or just that it wouldn't work under Linux? Which is why it is good to try it under Window$.

One thing that hasn't been mentioned is that when you switch your BIOS from 'legacy' mode to SATA mode, you lose some of your IDE capability. (can't have as many drives) It wasn't clear from what was posted as to exactly what got changed (and where) but this sounds to me like a "problem" with the BIOS which may or may not be "the way it works".