OK,
As an experiment I thought I'd swap the CD-Writer in my Linux Box (Artec 48x/16x/50x, Celeron 666, Mandrake 9.0) with the CD-ROM drive in my A1200T(Power Tower, Samsung 32x CD, 4xEIDE interface, 4Gb HD, 030/40, 2+32Mb RAM, HyperCOM Clockport Serial Port, OS 3.9).
Note that the only way I was able to get the 4xEIDE interface working with OS3.9 was to disable the 4xeide.device line in the startup-sequence, otherwise the machine wouldn't even boot.
Once the CD Writer was in the A1200, software became a lot more unstable, particularly IBrowse 2.3, which is a git since that's the only way I can access my Yahoo e-mail from home. Also, the Linux box won't boot to a desktop, like it did before I tried swapping drives, but just gives a text terminal login.
I thought it might be an incompatibility thing, and switched the drives back, but with the CD-ROM in the A1200, although software is stable again, the 4xEIDE Prefs won't see the device at all, and the CD drive makes wierd clunky noises on boot-up.
Anyone got any thoughts on what's happened?
Stimpy
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