Monte Milanuk wrote: > A while back I 'rescued' an old P5-133 w/ 16MB of RAM to be a firewall > machine. The original CDROM didn't work, so I replaced it w/ another, and > replaced the HD w/ a WD 3.2GB HD. Everything seemed to work ok for a while, > but then the CD started acting up, i.e. whenever I inserted a disk, it would > sit there blinking non-stop, unable to access the CD. I robbed a CD drive > out of another machine, same thing?!!? Played musical chairs w/ the drives > on the ide cables, the whole nine yards. Nothing helped. Suddenly, the HD > started 'clunking' ominously. Went and got a 'new' 1.2GB HD from the local > computer shack for about $10-15, and magically everything worked perfectly. > Played around w/ it for a while, messed w/ RH 6.2 on the system. Now trying > Debian 2.2r2 on it, and it worked ok, other than it took literally a day or > so for it to crunch it's way thru the secondary install. Ended up rebooting > and installing the packages from dselect. But, again, one CD wouldn't be > recognized. It was an extra, so I wasn't too worried. > > Now I'm to the point where ~50% of my CD's aren't recognized in the drive, > regardless of whether they are Debian install CD's, RedHat, CDRW's, music > CD's, whatever. > > Anyone w/ a good idea of WTF is going on her please let me know. I'm at the > end of my rope on this one. This box is about one hop from the trash > dumpster if it doesn't get fixed soon. I've already expended far more in > time/effort/material than what the stupid thing is worth. Right now the > only thing keeping me working on it is a grudge match sort of thing ;) > > TIA, > > Monte > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, your running an Pentium class system so that rules out improper jumper settings on the hard drive controller :-D Try to put the CD-ROM on its own IDE channel and configure it as the master device. If that doesn't work try to diable the CD-ROM in the system BIOS and then let Linux try to detect the device. Try passing a few arguments to LILO at boot time (ex: ide1=autotune hdc=cdrom) and see what happens. Stef
