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Re: Troubles with my CD-ROM (way wierd.)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Anderson)
Fri Oct 25 06:33:45 1996
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 06:47:54 -0400
From: Paul Anderson <andersop@agapesystems.com>
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Aaron Holtz wrote:
>
> Sort of a strange problem and I wonder if it is with my IDE interface on
> the motherboard. Here goes the situation:
>
> 1. The system finds my CD-ROM on boot no problem - from dmesg:
> hdc: tOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5502TA, ATAPI, CDROM drive
> I have also used an NEC 3x with similiar results.
>
> 2. When I use my Caldera kernel that came from a CD that contained
> RedHat 2.0 (??), I can mount a CD - it takes about 45 seconds though
> for most CD's before I am returned to a prompt.
> If I boot with a RedHat kernel (I upgraded from 2.0 to 3.0.3 using
> the upgrade script and have built a new kernel) the whole machine
> locks up completely and there is no breaking it when I try and mount
> a CD.
>
> 3. Under the condition where I can actually mount the CD, things get very
> strange. I was going to install Applixware today and thought I would
> read the README file and gander at the install script. What I found
> was several misspellings and strange characters on the screen! The
> install script wouldn't even run because the word 'exit' and the word
> 'echo' was misspelled! As if the system had somehow mangled the
> information.
>
> 4. I have had troubles using my CD-ROM since the start. I never could
> get 3.0.3 installed and had to install the Caldera 2.0 RedHat and then
> run the upgrade script to go to 3.0.3 (somehow it worked that one
> time!) Similiar troubles when trying to install 3.0.3 from scratch
> occurred (the machine would lock up or quit transferring data and
> just die.)
>
> I have built the kernel with iso9660 support properly and it recognizes
> the CD-ROM drives fine. It is an IDE drive and the hard drives I have on
> the 1st IDE interface are very happy. The CD-ROM is the master device on
> the second IDE all by itself and uses IRQ 15. The only other major
> devices on the system are an ethernet card using IRQ 11 and the mouse
> using com 1 (IRQ 4) and the modem on com 2 (IRQ 3). Could my iso9660 support
> be foo on the drive? Could the IDE interface be unhappy on the
> motherboard? I have only used this machine for Linux so cannot say it
> works with other OS's. I have purchased Applixware and RedHat 4.0, but
> without a working CD-ROM they aren't much use right now! Any insights
> and thoughts are welcome. If you have read this far, it is very much
> appreciated. Thanks again to all!
>
> Aaron Holtz
>
What IDE chipset do you have on your motherboard? This may be the
problem.
Paul Anderson
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