Hi Michael, > Well, I ran into trouble reading from CD the other day, and it all culminated > in > the CD being marked offline after repeated IO errors. That was with a 24x > SCSI > drive which I had bought for use on Atari and Mac ten years ago. The drive > hat > gotten a bit dodgy already (no eject), so I swapped it out for a 48x one. > That drive got me all the way to drive partitioning; at that time I had to > abort > the install in order to back up the contents of a spare chroot partition on > sda.
The drives I use (Yamaha CRW8424S [ID2] and Toshiba CD-ROM XM-5701TA [ID3]) run perfectly with MiNT and ExtenDOS. > Imagine my frustration when my 2.6.27 kernel started spewing IO errors while I can. :-( > reading from the designated partition. Something's gone dodgy with SCSI > again. Well. That's what I suppose as well. > I'll have to investigate this more fully in the next days, but I'd advise > against installing to a SCSI partition on a disk with valuable data on it > (unless you want to risk a very exciting fsck session). :-) Thanks for the warnings but don't worry - I am unable to install to a SCSI partition because I only have IDE hard disks installed in my falcon. ;-) > Installing to IDE will be fine, as long as the SCSI CDROM does not trigger > timeouts just because it's slow. Hmm, perhaps that is the reason why my tries failed? Anyway, I think I won't be able to try an installation procedure again until the SCSI issues are fixed. Just keep me informed when there is an update available. Regards, Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
