On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 05:00:39PM -0600, ktb wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:55:20PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I recently switched from RedHat 6.2 to potato and my cdrom seems to have
> > the following problems :
> > Most of the time I get errors like :
> >
> > hdb: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy }
> > hdb: ATAPI reset complete
> >
> > Sometimes I also get errors like :
> >
> > attempt to access beyond end of device
> > 03:40: rw=0, want=33, limit=0
> > dev 03:40 blksize=1024 blocknr=32 sector=64 size=1024 count=1
> > isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=03:40, iso_blknum=16, block=32
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
> > or too many mounted file systems
> > (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
> > instead of some logical partition inside?)
> >
> > And often it works too !
> > The CDROM is 44x IDE cdrom.
> > The didn't happen in redhat so I expect it is a configuration problem of
> > some srt . Could you please guide me to the appropriate literature or give
> > a tip or two ?
> >
> >
> I've seen this error a couple of times the "timeout: status..."
> It ultimately meant the hard drive was failing in my accounts.
> There is plenty of discussion about this in the list archives,
> take a look there. Some people seem to be able to recover,
> others can't. I had the same experience as you where one
> version of linux seemed to work but the other didn't but it was
> only temporary. Meaning the drive died.
> Good luck.
> kent
>
>
Sorry. I got home after a hectic day and didn't read properly.
Your talking about a cdrom and not a hd.
kent
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