Re: ide CD Bruner
Unfortunately you can't just use any old cdrom with a laptop and expect it
to boot. The bios must support talking to that device, and pcmcia cdroms
vary greatly in the methods in which they are initialized/etc. - so
essentially, your bios needs to be able to see it. For monetary (aka buy
our drive!) reasons as well as pure practical (can't support every tom
dick and harry cdrom drive when it makes you $0.00) reasons - your bios
will support a very limited set of cdroms for booting.
If you have a newer bios that can boot from usb floppy, you're probably
(don't quote me!) safe with a usb cdrom/dvdrom/cdrw drive - but I haven't
tested this. I am sure there are combinations that just don't work, but
at least it's not as hopeless as matching up and old pcmcia cdrom.
Naturally, all of this is only an issue for booting - as beyond that the
support required is merely physical hardware connectivity and support in
your OS of choice - so this is mainly an issue for ultralight/thin laptops
that don't have a builtin. Although I suppose it would be an issue for
booting from dvdrom on a laptop with only a cdrom, but I haven't seen many
bootable dvdroms :)
-Martin N.
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 Michael.Wordehoff@gmx.de wrote:
> > > I look for a *bootable* CD rw that is supported by linux ide burning ...
> > Every modern cdrecorder manufactured in the last years should work without
> > any problems. Mostly not being able to boot is a bios problem.
> But id did boot with a Toshiba CD (readonly), before i exchanged it to the
> teac w24e.
>
> > But be carefull, this method is marked a beta. But I use it for several
> > months without any problems.
> Thanks. I'll go try as soon i got the new one.
>
> btw. do you think i'm right that a DVD rw would probably be problematic to
> boot with my
> old inspiron 5000 BIOS ?
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