On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:55:20PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
> I recently switched from RedHat 6.2 to potato and my cdrom seems to have the
> following problems :
> Most of the time I get errors like :
>
> hdb: irq timeout: status=0xc0 { Busy }
> hdb: ATAPI reset complete
>
> Sometimes I also get errors like :
>
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 03:40: rw=0, want=33, limit=0
> dev 03:40 blksize=1024 blocknr=32 sector=64 size=1024 count=1
> isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=03:40, iso_blknum=16, block=32
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
> or too many mounted file systems
> (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
> instead of some logical partition inside?)
>
> And often it works too !
> The CDROM is 44x IDE cdrom.
> The didn't happen in redhat so I expect it is a configuration problem of some
> srt . Could you please guide me to the appropriate literature or give a tip
> or two ?
>
>
I've seen this error a couple of times the "timeout: status..."
It ultimately meant the hard drive was failing in my accounts.
There is plenty of discussion about this in the list archives,
take a look there. Some people seem to be able to recover,
others can't. I had the same experience as you where one
version of linux seemed to work but the other didn't but it was
only temporary. Meaning the drive died.
Good luck.
kent
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