Well, finaly, i found the solution:
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Some said to me that they had the same problem, and that it was due to
some cheap and low quality cdrom units. And it seem it's true: I
borrowed another cdrom (hitachi x16), and there was no problem more.
(Note that on the other hand my Funai had no problem under win95,
but i think that 'windoze' isn't as exigent as linux with such
devices).
Well, at least, i bought another cdrom, and i feel better, so
people willing to buy a cd and who want to use it under linux,
don't take the cheapest ones! (or at your own risk)
matimbert a écrit:
>
> precisions on the cdrom problem:
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>
> 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?
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