On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 11:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Issue with CDROM Drive
> Date: 16 Jun 2003 10:07:56 -0500
>
> On 16 Jun 2003, at 10:29, Mathieu Masse wrote:
>
> > I posted this on the list last Friday and got no responses so I am
> > posting again...
> >
> > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 14:03, Mathieu Masse wrote:
> >
> > > Hi list,
> > >
> > > Small issue with my CDROM drive, when I try to install rpm's or other
> > > programs from my CDROM drive sometimes it just hangs. I mean the drive
> > > hangs, it stops spinning at high speed and just tries to seek and goes
> > > nowhere, it always results in the application calling the CDROM drive to
> > > just spit out an error and stop. Sometimes I even have to eject the CD
> > > to make it stop.
> > >
> > > I am running RH9.0 on a x86, with a CD-956E/AKV, ATAPI CDROM drive.
> > > What could be my problem. I know the drive is good since I have a dual
> > > boot system with W2K and it fine in windows.
>
> Is there anything else on the IDE channel with the drive?
Actually its on IDE-2 as a slave, I have one hardrive on IDE-1 as
master, the CDROM was put as a slave on IDE-2 simply because the cable
did not fit.
> What sorts of DMA settings are you using on it and other drives (man
> hdparm)?
> Are there any other things you're doing at the time or is it
> pretty much random with nothing else going on at times?
>
No last time I had the problem, I was trying to install Unreal using
Wine. But it also happens when I use the Red Hat Packaged manager to
install packages from my Red Hat CDs.
> I don't use KDE or Gnome, but there's supposed to be something
> that autodetects media put into the CD drive that's been known to
> cause problems (automount or something similar is the name) in
> one or both.
>
> I know I used nautilus a long while back and it caused problems for
> me in a like manner. I ended up uninstalling it. I doubt that's
> causing it as I don't recall seeing any complaints along that line in
> awhile, but that doesn't rule it out completely.
>
>
>
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