On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > > > 'hdb irq timeout : status = 0x58
> > > > > hdb ATAPI reset complete'
> > > Try giving "hdb=cdrom" as an argument to the kernel. Maybe that will help.
> > >
> > No, this doesn't make any difference. This parameter only is necessary to
> > tell the kernel that /dev/hdb is a CD-ROM drive instead of a harddisk. The
> > effect is the same as described by the original poster. Any other ideas?
>
> Put a disc in the drive? :-(
>
Sure i did! I get these messages accessing the disc during installation
of Debian packages from my I-Connect CD-ROM...
> The other alternative is to try to fix the driver,
> but I don't know nearly enough about Linux to even consider it.
>
Yeah, and i'm an ethnologist who knows more about African languages than
about any programming language! ;-) I'm totally dependend on the
benevolence of all you fine GNU programmers out there!
> With a disc in the drive at mount time, it works fine.
>
Well, without accessing it, it works fine here as well. But that's not
what this drive has been bought for...
Any ideas someone? P. *8^)
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