Re: CDROM worked once (surprise) can't get it to work again!

1999-10-08 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, I had this problem with my CDROM way back in kernel 1.2 (1995). I fixed it by increasing the time-out settings in the BIOS. It also helped to move it to hdb, thus on the first controller, but I am not exactly sure why. But increasing the BIOS settings worked more consistently. I have

Re: CDROM worked once (surprise) can't get it to work again!

1999-10-08 Thread Paul Hawkins
John Miskinis wrote: > 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 had this problem with my CDROM way back in kernel 1.2 (1995). I fixed it by increasing the t

CDROM worked once (surprise) can't get it to work again!

1999-10-08 Thread John Miskinis
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 be