CAUTION with SATA DVD drives

[cps22]

OK, just spent over a week and probably 20+ hours fighting a problem with SATA DVD drives in 9.10.

Finally identified the problem as LINUX having problem with SATA drives and wanted to let others know.

There are several references from many LINUX distros about incompatibilities. Do a google search and you'll see.

If you're having problems with SATA DVDs you are not alone.

Good luck, hopefully if you read this you'll not waste 20+ hours like I did.

CPS22

[Qqmike]

Re: CAUTION with SATA DVD drives

Ya know, cps22, your vigilance is appreciated here, but when you post something like this--a warning--you really need to include useful specifics, not just a suggestion to google it. At the very least, you should report in detail your specific experience with it and how you resolved it and lessons learned; references/links would be nice/useful to others. (btw, fwiw, I have a SATA DVD drive with absolutely no issues whatsoever in any Kubuntu version.)

[Telengard]

Re: CAUTION with SATA DVD drives

There are several references from many LINUX distros about incompatibilities. Do a google search and you'll see.

My LG SATA Blu-Ray drive works perfectly in Jaunty.

[sithlord48]

Re: CAUTION with SATA DVD drives

my light-on cheep dvd r/w -r is working perfectly oh yea its SATA btw...

[cps22]

Re: CAUTION with SATA DVD drives

All I'm suggesting is that if someone has problems playing DVDs like I did, maybe they should look at whether they have IDE or SATA DVD drives.
I'm not trying to suggest that although I've had problems with my SATA DVDs in two physical and a couple of virtual systems that everyone will.
My physical systems are cobbled-together conglomerations of constant upgrades.
The virtuals were both VM and VirtualBox where the host system had SATA DVDs.

I'm not bashing Linux. I'm trying to share the experience I had in hopes that someone else may benefit.

[katoiam]

Re: CAUTION with SATA DVD drives

I think all people are saying is that you should give some details instead of just bashing it, so it could be of help to other people

[dibl]

Re: CAUTION with SATA DVD drives

I don't mean to spoil the joy of discovery, but the fact that the installer sometimes has problems on systems with a mix of PATA and SATA hard drives is not really news -- we have threads on this topic back to 2006.

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=6070.0

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=11753.0

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3081503.0

[Qqmike]

Re: CAUTION with SATA DVD drives

Well now after telling cps22 to produce details, I don't have mine handy on this issue, but some of you tech guys will know: There was a time (going back maybe a couple years) when motherboard chips would not support SATA DVD/CD drives (or the support was iffy). Combined with that, kernel support was lacking in certain technical ways to fully support the SATA DVD/CD capability. But all that goes back several steps now (2007-ish?), and anyone using a fairly recent mobo and fairly recent kernel should have no problems running their SATA DVD/CD drives. Sorry, I don't have time to dig into my notes on this history, but some of you guys may be able to lay this out in some detail. That's why some specifics from cpc22 would have been interesting and shed some light on what sort of configuration the SATA was not running well.

[vinnywright]

Re: CAUTION with SATA DVD drives

AAA it's not ben that long ago (has it) that you had to be carfull what brand of IDE-cd-rw drive you got becose cdrecorde dident like all of them.

VINNY