precisions on the cdrom problem: -------------------------------- George Bonser a écrit: > I am thinking that you might need the old serialize trick. > I seem to have forgotten the exact syntax but I THINK it is like this: > append = "hdb=cdrom" > append = "hdb=serialize" > > On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, matimbert wrote: > > i installed recently a debian 1.3.1. > > My cdrom (a "funai e285xa") is correctly detected during boot up. But, near > > half the times, when i > > "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom", i get: > > "hdb: status error: status=0x08. > > Drive not ready for command. > > ATAPI reset complete". > > and then my hard disk starts to work for a while, then pause, in loop, as i > > continuously have some messages telling me > > that my hda (not hdb) is not ready. The system is not crashed but i can't > > get the control back, and i must reset the pc > > between two periods of > > hard disk work. I had an old Slackware before this debian and i never had > > any problem (with my > > cdrom, i mean...). Under win95 there's no problem. > > My config: pentium 233 mmx. chipset tx on an asus txp4 motherboard. > > .hda=ide0 master=quantum fireball 3.2 go udma (whith 3 partitions: > > hda1=linux/hda2=linux swap/hda3=win95) > > .hdb=ide0 slave=cdrom (8x funai e285xa) > > .hdc=ide1 master=old 80Mb conner hard disk > > .hdd=nothing > > .no SCSI device in my config, just a parallel port Iomega Zip Drive. > > you can mail me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So i tried including append="ide0=serialize" but it did not solve the problem. I see that i forgot to give my kernel's version: 2.0.29 For the error messages, i noted them very precisely if someone can understand what it means: hdb: status error: status= 0x08 hdb: drive not ready for command hdb: ATAPI reset complete hdb: status error: status=0x08 hdb: drive not ready for command hdb: ATAPI reset timed-out status=0x080 ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xd0 hdb: status timeout: status=0x80 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40, sector 0 hdb: drive not ready for command hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 {busy] hda: drive not ready for command ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xd0 ... and so on ... from there it loops with messages concerning hda... here's the whole problem. thanks for anybody giving me any explication...Is my cdrom broken? Is it possible that it is incompatible whith linux? [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .