I can't recall any of the makes and models off-hand, but BioBrew has worked on all major brand DVD-ROMs that I've worked with, like Sony. Glen > Greetings. > > We tried installing BioBrew 3.0-beta from DVD (the only option) on a > computer with a cheap (Dynex) DVD/R/RW drive, and the install process > actually stops and asks for a device driver disk. > > We tried finding a device driver for the DVD drive, which is apparently > made by a European company called "BTC", model 1108IM. They have > drivers only for MS-Windows, and based on a offical response, have no > plans to create one for Linux. We then searched for a generic driver on > the Internet, but the only one we found is a generic one usually built > into the Linux kernel, except apparently for BioBrew (and Rocks ?), but > it is built into the Fedora Core 2 kernel that we were able to > successfully install on the system. > > We found reference to a similar problem in the Rocks (not BioBrew) > manual, whereby during installation the system wants a device driver > disk inserted. Rocks support response was that it was caused by cheap > DVD drives not fully supporting the standard. They suggest typing > "frontend driverload=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" to emulate a scsi interface. > We tried it, but it didn't work. > > We looked into creating a driver disk, but there isn't a driver image > file like there was with earlier RedHat distributions, e.g. > drvblock.img. Same for the Fedora distribution we installed. According > to what we found on the Internet, RedHat no longer distributes a > separate driver file. > > So, what drives do work with BioBrew 3.0? What brands have people used > and found to work without a separate driver? > > Cheers. > Jeff > -- > J.W. Bizzaro > Bioinformatics Organization, Inc. (Bioinformatics.Org) > E-mail: jeff at bioinformatics.org > Phone: +1 508 890 8600 > -- > _______________________________________________ > BioBrew-Users mailing list > BioBrew-Users at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/BioBrew-Users > -- Glen Otero, Ph.D. Linux Prophet Callident 619.917.1772