Re: Install problems from a newbie

[Carel Fellinger]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 05:15:46PM -0600, Carnes, Kevin wrote:
...
> hdc:cdrom_decode_status: status = 0X51 {DriveReady Seek Complete Error}
> hdc:cdrom_decode_status: error = 0X34
> hdc: ATAPI reset complete
> hdc: irq timeout: status = 0Xd0 {Busy}
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 863016

When I had problems like these, at one time the cdrom drive was dying,
at another time the cdrom couldn't cope with home burned cd's.  The
latter is the most frequent cause of the problem.  Unfortunately most
linux cd's are hoem burned, not pressed, and some older cdrom drives
have a hard time reading burned cdroms.  Same cd, same drive:
sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

-- 
groetjes, carel