Hello, A few minutes ago, I happened to boot up linux with my H45 quickcd attached (pcmcia) to my IBM Thinkpad 560. I was surprised to see the /dev/hdc show up using IRQ3 as attempts in the past never worked. It appears that the CDROM takes a second or two to spin up, and something times out before it is recognized. This time however I was able to mount /dev/hdc as /mnt and even use deselect to install some files from the Debian 2.1 CD!
I have combed the CDROM howto, but can't find anything pertaining to adding a command somewhere to increase the timeout(s) during bootup. Does anyone know how to do this? I was REALLY AMAZED that this worked, and I have booted several times since tonight and it just fails over and over again. I think the timeout is just a wee bit to short. Again this is a PCMCIA-based H45 "QuickCD". I believe I am running with the vanilla 2.0.36 kernel, but I can doublecheck if needed. Many thanks for any info on this timeout issue... John ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
