I have an Intel AL440LX motherboard, and have 2 Western Digital
drives on my primary IDE interface. On my second IDE interface
I have an IDE CD-ROM which the kernel correctly detects on hdc
as an "MATSHITA CR-586, ATAPI CDROM drive". This drive is a 32X
drive purchased from Creative.
Additionally, I have my bios set up to AUTO-detect the drives
and for all three drives (the 2 hard disks, and the CD-ROM) it
seems to autodetect them correctly.
In my configuration the first hard disk drive (hda) is a Win95
drive, the second (hdb) is all Linux, and I use LILO to boot. I
am running a RedHat 5.0 installation, with the latest (downloaded
the RPM from the RedHat archive) kernel. Finally, I am having
similar problems under Windows '95, but am trying to chase this
problem via Linux because, frankly, Linux has MUCH better errors
messages and logging of the failures. :)
Anyway ......
Everything runs great until I put a CD-ROM into the drive (and,
in fact, these errors even occur when I just pop the drive open).
I get error messages like :
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May 29 19:42:58 triad kernel: hdb: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
May 29 19:42:58 triad kernel: hdb: drive not ready for command
May 29 19:43:28 triad kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80
May 29 19:43:28 triad kernel: hdb: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
May 29 19:43:28 triad kernel: hdb: drive not ready for command
May 29 19:43:48 triad kernel: ide0: reset: success
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The success comes after I pop the CD back out (or close the CD drive
with no CD installed), and wait a bit.
What is going on? Is the problem my motherboard? Has anyone seen
this before? This is a new drive, and if it is the drive I want to
take it back ASAP.
HELP! Thanks in advance!
-- Dwight ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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