The internal drive in my 9600 finally gave up on me so I'm replacing it with CRW14416S 16x CD-RW drive. I have a pile of Yamahas and I'll use those over anything because the rest of my pile is caddy loading or super sloe. The problem I'm getting is that if you leave a CD in the drive while booting the system crashes with bus errors. If you try to boot from the 9.0 disc it starts to read and then hangs everything. It will boot my system 8 cd but stops reading eventually and hangs everything. I've tried different power cables. I've tried different SCSI cables. I've tried both internal bus headers. The drive refuses to behave, with and without other devices on the bus running flawlessly.
Now, if I take the drive, throw it in an enclosure and hang it off the machine on the external port it runs flawlessly. :?:
I tried my other 16x Yamaha. Same problem. Now lets turn the weird up to 11.
I take my 6x speed Yamaha CD-RW drive and it works! What on earth is this voodoo?
Edited: Dammit!!
Actually it seems the 6x drive just goes a little further into the boot before locking the system up. For kicks I pulled a Toshiba from another system and it got to the same point before sounding like it was retrying over and over, finally bombing with error 102. On restart it was yet another bus error.
I can understand the problems if everything on the bus was doing this but why just CD drives and why the hell is it when they are on the internal bus exclusively??
Now, if I take the drive, throw it in an enclosure and hang it off the machine on the external port it runs flawlessly. :?:
I tried my other 16x Yamaha. Same problem. Now lets turn the weird up to 11.
I take my 6x speed Yamaha CD-RW drive and it works! What on earth is this voodoo?
Edited: Dammit!!
Actually it seems the 6x drive just goes a little further into the boot before locking the system up. For kicks I pulled a Toshiba from another system and it got to the same point before sounding like it was retrying over and over, finally bombing with error 102. On restart it was yet another bus error.
I can understand the problems if everything on the bus was doing this but why just CD drives and why the hell is it when they are on the internal bus exclusively??
