For some reason, although my CD-ROM drive worked almost perfectly in
Linux, it stopped working properly in Windows (YES, I still need it for
Quattro Pro and a few games :( ). Of course, I thought this was a
glitch in Windows, but nothing I did fixed the problem. Finally I
decided to switch it from being a slave on the primary IDE interface to
being a slave on the secondary interface. It works ok in both Windows
and Linux now, but I get some strange bootup messages in Linux.
With the old configuration, I got messages like:
hdb: Probing with STATUS[0x50] instead of ALTSTATUS [whatever]
hdb: Probing with STATUS[0x51] instead of ALTSTATUS [whatever]
hdb: Probing with STATUS[0x51] instead of ALTSTATUS [whatever]
but it worked fine.
Now I get this:
boot dmesg:
-- PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: QUANTUM BIGFOOT2550A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: non-IDE drive, CHS=700/255/63
hdc: Maxtor 90576D4, ATA DISK drive
hdd: FX001DE, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: QUANTUM BIGFOOT2550A, 2457MB w/87kB Cache, CHS=624/128/63, DMA
hdb: INVALID GEOMETRY: 255 PHYSICAL HEADS?
hdc: Maxtor 90576D4, 5495MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=11166/16/63, DMA
after mount /cdrom:
hdb: INVALID GEOMETRY: 255 PHYSICAL HEADS?
hdd: ATAPI 4X CDROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.13
VFS: Disk change detected on device 16:40
The funny thing is that now the BIOS and Windows agree that there is no
slave on the primary interface, but Linux insists on finding a drive
there?!
PPro 180, VX440 mobo, 440FX chipset, Mitsumi CD-ROM
I will try a 2.0 kernel later to see if that changes anything.
Justin A. Kolodziej
Easiest Color To Solve On A Rubik's Cube:
Black. Simply remove all the little colored stickers on the
cube, and each of side of the cube will now be the original color of
the plastic underneath -- black. According to the instructions, this
means the puzzle is solved.
-- Steve Rubenstein
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/