-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:07:01PM -0500, Thomas H. George spake thus: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 04:36:13PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > -- Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > (on Monday, 17 February 2003, 03:38 PM -0500): > > > It used to work. > > > > > > I have append="hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo. > > > On bootup dmesg|grep hdd shows > > > > > > ide-setup: hdd=ide-scsi > > > ide1: BM-MDA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc DMA hdd: > > > DMA > > > hdd: Norcent RWJ-401S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > > > > > > I have burnt cd's with the Norcent CD-RW drive in the past. Now, > > > suddenly xcdroast can't find it and cdrecord -scanbus fails. > > > > It looks like you're setting DMA on /dev/hdd? I'd done this (by > > accident), and it made ide-scsi not work. Try turning it off, reloading > > ide-scsi (modprobe ide-scsi) and see if that will work. > > > > -- > > Matthew Weier O'Phinney > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I did not intentionally set DMA on /dev/hdd and I don't know how to turn > it off. Could you tell me how you did this?
I had a similar problem with my CD-ROM. What I did was make a one-line executable in /etc/init.d: /sbin/hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc When my system boots up, it disables hdparm on hdc which is my cd-rom. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+UeseZyXhknb+33gRAtkYAJ0Wqa/6kt+h+19uVVWs7eDAGTgimACdEtay mebWEUSGS/wz7i9Xy9WifEg= =u44x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
