Strange problem with Panasonic DVD RW drive

[Geoff Glasson]

On Thursday 23 February 2006 20:32, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:15:31 +0800
>
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> In safe mode you have hw.ata.atapi_dma=0. Try setting it to 0 at loader
> prompt and boot -v and see if you can mount the CD. Try changing the
> cable anyway.
>
> What MB/chip-set ?

Thanks for the quick response.  Turning off DMA has had the desired effect.

FYI: I have an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard with AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual 
Core Processor 3800+ (2010.31-MHz K8-class CPU).

Regards...Geoff
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