Abit KT7 incompatible with LiteOn LTR-24102B

[Gurm]

FWIW, I have found the LTR24102B to be perfectly happy as secondary slave to my DVD drive, both Liteon 16x and now Hitachi 16x.

- Gurm

[DentyCracker]

Final Solution (I hope)

This is what works for me.
300W PSU from work machine
Toshiba SD-M1402 as SM
LiteOn LTR-24102B as SS

woohoo for now


I love my KT7 but it has got issues
Even with a PSU capable of 25A on the +5V line and 10A on the +12V line it will not see the SD-M1402 as SS to the CDRW's SM, where this was not a problem in the other mobo. This sort of pickiness to me is a design flaw or manufacturing defect. I have always heard of weirdness of Abit boards and have tended to stay away. At the time I bought this mobo (August 2000), it wass the best that fitted my needs at the time. I have no real regrets about buying it. It was the only mobo available at the time (to me) that did all the tweaking in the BIOS without he need to be fiddling with jumpers. If the current setup remains stable then I can concentrate on saving all upgrade money for the Tyan Tiger and Dual hi-speed Athlons+M's fast expensive card + oodles of memory

[dZeus]

denty, do you have a PCI modem? take it out for a second if you do.

I've witnessed the weirdest problem that a CDWriter wouldn't be detected as Secondary Slave in a system until the modem was removed and replaced by one of a different brand.

talking about weird problems, what about an Abit VP6 Dual Coppermine motherboard not being able to boot up with a Creative SBLive! 5.1 installed. After swapping it for another one from the exact same batch of cards, it booted up just fine. The card that was 'faulty' worked just fine in a different system.

[DentyCracker]

Funny you should mention that dZ

I do indeed have a PCI modem (CNET conexant [rockwell] based thing) in PCI6 (a recent addition since my external modem was fuXx0r3d by the public power supply but that's another story). Apart from one spontaneous reboot while accessing the drive there hasn't been much untoward behaviour. I am in win2k at the mo as that is where I have EzCD5.02c installed. I just set both CDROMs for DMA and so far so good.
I'll leave the machine on and crunching genome at work as I'm going to my cousin's wake to get drunk in preparation for the funeral tomorrow. The poor sod was only 25 too, fixing a flat by the side of the road and being killed by an out of control car whose driver had fallen asleep.

[Fat Tone]

Sorry to hear that Denty. My commiserations.

Tony.

[DentyCracker]

The Saga Continues

Apparently the cool of my office, and the APC Backups Pro contributed to the good behaviour of the machine yesterday. Carried it home earlier tonight only to find that the 2 CDROMS refuse to coexist on the same controller. I now have the following setup
Maxtor 20GB HD PM
LiteOn LTR-24102B PS
Toshibe SD-M1402 SM
Maxtor 6GB HD SS

I really think this is going to work
At least I hope it shall