Re: 2.1.117, flaky cdrom, frozen mount

Erik Andersen (andersen@inconnect.com)
Tue, 25 Aug 1998 14:36:11 -0600 (MDT)


On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Peter Gervai wrote:

> >
> > Hmmm. I have now gotten a couple of reports about this occuring, but I'm
> > not seeing it here. I havn't yet established a pattern. What type of
> > cdrom drive do you have? What ide chipset? I assume you have a good cable,
> > right? Do you know what kernel it does work with (i.e. 2.1.116?). Thanks
> > for your help,
>
> this line appears in the kernel log after the "Power on..." line:
> ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
> seems that it recognized the CD _somehow_ but did not get over the init.
>
> The cable supposed to be good (the machine run on 2.0.3x for months).
> Last dev kernel I tried was around 2.1.96 or so, it worked. If you
> need it I could revert to 116 but only if you ask for it because the
> machine is slow and I am usually not there (hard to arrange).
>
> controller, card, cd, etc:
>
> PIIX: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 38
> PIIX: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> PIIX: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)
> PIIX: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> PIIX: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x3000-0x3007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x3008-0x300f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> hda: QUANTUM LIGHTNING 730A, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: IBM-DJAA-31080, ATA DISK drive
> hdd: PCA123CD, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
>
> The CD is a "noname" 8x ATAPI piece-o-junk.
>
> bye,
> grin
>

Ok, could you try again under 2.1.117 where you add
options cdrom debug=1
to /etc/conf.modules so we can see where it chokes. Thanks,

-Erik

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