Okay, i tried asking this one a while back and didn't get any response so i guess i'll
give it another shot.
My CD-ROM was not detected when i installed mandrake so i ended up copying the CD's
onto my windows partition and doing a HD install which worked okay except that at the
beginning of the installation when it says "Finding IDE devices.." (or something like
that.. can't remember) there would be a LONG pause (i thought it locked up on me but
after leaving it to go to supper i found that it actually worked :)
Now i know that there's no problem with the CD-Rom because:
a) It works in windows
b) It worked in Redhat 7.0
(Interestingly enough i remember that it stopped working in Redhat when i upgraded to
a 2.4 kernel)
And before you ask, yes i tried mounting the CD-ROM. The problem is bigger than that.
As proof i submit a snippet from dmesg:
Linux version 2.4.8-26mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.96 20000731
(Mandrake Linux 8.1 2.96-0.62mdk)) #1 Sun Sep 23 17:06:39 CEST 2001
<snipped out seemingly unimportant stuff>
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
Unknown bridge resource 1: assuming transparent
Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
<snipped again>
hdm: CRD-8320B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide6 at 0x100-0x107,0x300 on irq 12
hda: 16809660 sectors (8607 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=1046/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdm: irq timeout: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdm: irq timeout: error=0x60
hdm: irq timeout: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdm: irq timeout: error=0x68
hdm: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hdm: status timeout: status=0xd8 { Busy }
hdm: drive not ready for command
hdm: ATAPI reset complete
hdm: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hdm: status timeout: status=0xd8 { Busy }
hdm: drive not ready for command
hdm: ATAPI reset complete
hdm: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
end_request: I/O error, dev 58:00 (hdm), sector 0
hdm: ATAPI CD-ROM drive, 0kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
<snip the rest>
A little help please? I included some (possibly) relevent info that i found in
/proc/ide/ide6/hdm/
Model:
CRD-8320B
Diver:
ide-cdrom version 4.59
Thanks,
KIRT
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