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Sounds like they changed disk manufacturers. Never count on a company being the actual makers of a product they sell. Especially in the computer buisiness. If its the diode then you stand a good chance of getting a working cdrom back. Good luck.

Glad you figured it out. Sorry about the drive though.

I would try a different medium first just to be sure thats not most of the problems. Are you sure the pins are set correctly on the back of the drives? I only ask this just to be sure. I try to always keep the hard drives on the first ide channel. The cdroms, cdrws, and dvd drives on the second chanel. If I'm putting in a zip drive I use the second channel but since you have extra ones I would put it on the forth channel. I would put the dvd drive by it self on the third channel. Keeping drive types seperate usually keeps problems down. Also some problems are noted when using certain cd disks. It seems that some of them always have problems working in anything other than the drive that created it. (if it created it right in the first place.) You could always "drop back and punt" . Basicly taking everything out and adding one thing at a time testing each time. First the hard drive you want as master/primary then the second hard drive. Then the cdrom drive you want as master on the second channel then the next (cdrw) as a slave on that channel. Then the dvd on the third channel as master. and the zip drive( if you have one) as master on the forth channel.

Unless you realy do have a multi prossesor system. Then I would say the NCcheck app is buggy. It could be registering the math coprossesor as a second prossessor.

Try booting to a command line and rerunning xf86config to set the vidio corectly for the monitor.

And exactly were did you so inteligently post thay you had previuosly installed the drivers to 9.0? Just because you had RH working doesn't tell us that. It also doesn't tell us what else you've done to try to correct your problem. If you want a detailed answer please give a detailed post. The truely uninteligent are the ones who don't realize their own short commings.

I think they would need a windows driver to do it like NERO burn or something. Don't quote me on thiis though, never tried it myself.

I use The Gimp so.. Inside gimp you'll have to goto the Preferinces => directory and I made my temp directory the gimp temp and the swap directory my home/pat/temp While in preferences goto New file and set the maximun file size to what you think the system can handle. I fiddled around with it a bit and have it up to 404 megabytes for a color image in RGB mode. Takes about 5 minutes to scan though. I could probibly go higher though but the system slows down way to much to be worthwhile. By the way my monitor is a 21in digital running at 1600x1200 on a gforce2 card. The scans take a little working with to make them realy nice at that size. Must have to do with the RGB scanning mode. I'll try some other things soon though and post back.

Mine worked right off the bat with Man9.0. Just make sure you have the temp. settings large enough for the image coming in. I had some trouble untill I reset the temp to be a little larger than the in coming images. The scanner works MUCH better in linux than in win. I can now get a 250+ mb image file.

Great!! I knew that if you beat that thing enough it would give up and work the way you wanted it to.

In the bios can you boot to the usb port and use the cd-rw or are you trying just the dvd? In the bios can you turn off the sound card, ethernet card, modem and infra red controler? reducing the amout of stuff for the installer to find normaly helps. You can always turn them back on, one at a time, later and install them that way.

IF??? It has a floppy port you could try that. The installer could be having troouble with your dvd drive. If that doesn't work you could always try a harddrive install or a network install.

Try turning off all DMA, plug and prey and anything else you can think of in the bios. Try leaving the new linux partition totaly unformated, linux installers will find it. How large is the linux partition? 5 gig is a nice size to start with. Sometimes a too small pertition causes trouble with the installer.

Ral Sorry, same here

If your getting to the command line (you should be since it seems only your vidio is giving you trouble ) try typing in the command xf86config This might help you figure it out a little and get you to a basic vidio setting.

All of things are nice to have but what really is your problem?

Ral please don't cut and paste posts.

If I have you right. Then yes. Just try to connect normaly. I have 4 comps running now through a LAN and two are linux.

If its the OO version that came with the Mand 9.0 then its a little buggy. just download the new OO. That almost always fixes everything.

Do you have the small cable from the back of the cdrom to the sound card installed. Its normaly needed for the playing of audio cd's in linux. Linux doesn't digitaly read and replay the sound like windows does it uses the cable to go directly to the card. This saves processor power for other stuff. Sorry but thats all I can think of now.

From everything I've ever known No. To much chance of a spark or static discharge frying the other components.

If your using a gui desktop waynot just make a icon and link it to a bash script that mounts/unmounts the device? I think i"ve seen that around someplace before. If you have the script constantly asking for the cdroms and froppies don't you think that would tend to wareout the hardware a bit faster. Plus it would run in the background all the time sucking up usefull prossessor time.

From what i understand XP loads the desktop as soon as possible so that you have something to look at and play with. In the first minute it is still loading the rest of the system in the background. I think they got this idea from Apple/Mac. I'm sure linux can be made to boot in just the same way but I've never been interested in it since I leave mine on most of the time.

As for the partitioning thing. If you crash and burn your system you can alway reload the os and drivers into the root partition without reformating the others. So having your user,home, server files and just about anything else you want, each on different partitions, means that you don't loose anything in rebuilding the system. Its the safe way to do things and its quicker on the rebuild. I think windows preloads most of its stuff into memory so that when you call on it it just pops up real fast like. But put a little work on that prossesor and I bet she slows down like a pig. Were as linux just keeps on going. If im wrong on this please speak up someone.

Technicly you can't buy USB cables with the same ends. This is in order to keep things safe. But you should be able to find a usb transfer cable that will do what you want. I hate to promote any particular buisiness but tigerdirect.com sells BaFo Data Transfer USB Cables with two male ends that should do the job for you. Just looked them up and they are 20 bucks.US.