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Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 20:54:35 -0700
To: "D. DeCoudras" <ddecoudras@hotmail.com>,
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From: Erik Stainsby <stainsby@telus.net>
Subject: Re: Config CD-ROM / Identify retries exceeded
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LiteON is a very poorly made knock off brand. I have never succeeded in 
making it work under
any *NIX, while it will perform flawlessly for a short while under win32/DOS.
Give up and get a real CDR.  Sorry.

At 23:37 08/10/01 +0000, D. DeCoudras wrote:
>If anyone has any suggestions about the following, I'd be most 
>appreciative ... I have a CD-ROM (LiteON 40x) which is configured 
>correctly in my PC's BIOS (it boots the FreeBSD 4.4 Install CD no 
>problem). After installing and configuring FreeBSD 4.4 on my HP Pavilion, 
>while logged in as root I can't get the CD to mount. I see a few others 
>have had this problem, as in:
>
>ata0-slave: identify retries exceeded
>
>Can anyone suggest the best solution? I'm convinced that my CDROM is 
>configured correctly in BIOS (I have another IDE disk that I slide into my 
>PC with a disk tray / slider physical form factor ... it has SuSe Linux on 
>it and it boots just fine and sees the same CDROM drive with zero problems).
>
>Thank you for any suggestions.
>
>-DeCoudras
>
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