--- David Talkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> Monte Milanuk wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> THANK you for the dmesg. I wish more people provided
> such details.
>
> This is sort of a shot in the dark, but in older
> machines, I have
> better luck attaching CD drives as slaves to hda, rather
> than masters
> on their own controllers. Have you tried that? My
> experience
> suggests that it might help. In this case, since it
> worked for a
> while and then stopped, perhaps you should suspect a bad
> IDE
> controller.
>
> - -d
>
I haven't tried switching it over to a different controller
yet. I will try that and see if it helps any. I am
debating about taking it in to a local computer store to
have the drive controllers checked out. Most that I've
dealt with either flat refuse to work on something that
doesn't have M$ as the OS, or aren't able to tell me
anything that I hadn't already figured out on my own.
Thanks,
Monte
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