This is a weird one, for me at least.
I have a little Gateway 2000 P133 minitower w/ 16MB of RAM, a 3.2GB HD,
a CDROM, and a ZIP100 drive. This is my 'beater' box, for testing and
playing around. I installed RedHat 7.0 (KRUD) via the cdrom a while
back, and then later added a few packages from the CD's. Somewhere
along the line, though, the cdrom stopped working. Any attempt to mount
a CD returns a complaint that no medium was found. I tried changing the
CDROM drive out, since it would just sit there flashing the access
light. Different drive, same problem. I tried doing a reinstall, since
I had stripped this system down, and was afraid I had somehow messed
something up. The RedHat installer can't find a CD in the drive either.
During boot, all three IDE devices, the HD, the CDROM, and the ZIP, all
show up in the BIOS. All three show up initially during startup in
dmesg:
hda: WDC AC23200L, ATA DISK drive
hdc: WEARNES CDD-820, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
But the part where it tries to access the cdrom only gives this
(spartan) output:
cdrom: open failed.
The only thing in dmesg that catches my attention, but I'm not sure if
it was there before or not, and how exactly it would impact things is
this:
PIIX: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 38
PIIX: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PIIX: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)
If anyone could help me out with this, I'd greatly appreciate it. If
any one needs the complete dmesg output, I am attaching it at the end of
this message. Please CC replies to me so as to make sure I get them!
Thanks!
TIA,
Monte
[monte@gatekeeper monte]$ dmesg
Linux version 2.2.16-22 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Tue Aug 22 16:16:55
EDT 2000
Detected 132633 kHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 264.60 BogoMIPS
Memory: 14268k/16384k available (1048k kernel code, 412k reserved, 592k
data, 64k init, 0k bigmem)
Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
Page cache hash table entries: 4096 (order 2, 16k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 0c
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc7b1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 16384 bhash 16384)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS not found.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
PIIX: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 38
PIIX: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PIIX: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)
hda: WDC AC23200L, ATA DISK drive
hdc: WEARNES CDD-820, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: WDC AC23200L, 3098MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=787/128/63
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
8regs : 137.541 MB/sec
32regs : 101.346 MB/sec
using fastest function: 8regs (137.541 MB/sec)
scsi: 0 hosts.
scsi: detected total.
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed
Adding Swap: 133016k swap-space (priority -1)
tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 33 at 0xf800, 00:A0:CC:3C:DE:FE, IRQ 10.
eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 782d advertising 01e1.
eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of
45e1.
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.10
cdrom: open failed.
hdd: 98304kB, 32/64/96 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
hdd: The drive reports both 100663296 and 0 bytes as its capacity
ide-floppy: hdd: I/O error, pc = 0, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0
ide-floppy: hdd: I/O error, pc = 1b, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0
hdd: The drive reports both 100663296 and 0 bytes as its capacity
cdrom: open failed.
[monte@gatekeeper monte]$
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