[96835] in RedHat Linux List
Re: CDROM will not mount
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Thu Oct 29 15:00:36 1998
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 14:09:45 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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David Filion wrote:
> (Sorry if you already saw this but I did not see it get posted the first
> time.)
>
> When I try to mount my CDROM drive I receive the following messages over
> and over and have to ctrl-alt-del to shutdown and restart the system.
>
> hdh: ststus timeout: status = 0xff
> hdh: device not read for command
I think the sb16 IDE is /dev/hde (master) and /dev/hdf (slave).
Assuming it is the IDE controller number 3.
>
>
> My CDROM is a SoundBlaster CR-574 that is connected to the IDE port on my
> SB16 PnP sound
> card. I have two harddisks on the primary controler and I can't get anyting
> to work on the secondary so that's why it's on the soundcard.
>
> The setup is as follows:
>
> - Pentium 166
> - 32M EDO RAM
> - Win95 on 3.2G Western Digital set a primary
> - Linux 5.1 on a Segate 2.1G set as slave
> - Kernal version 2.0.34-0.6
> - LILO on the MBR to boot to win95 or linux.
> - SB 16 PnP sound card w/IDE cd-rom interface
> IRQ: 5 DMA's 1 and 5, IO address: 220h with a midi at 330h
> - SB CR-574b IDE cdrom (4X)
> DOS settings: IRQ:10 Port: 168 Drive:0
> Linux settings (I believe): ide3 at 0.168,0x36 on irq 10
>
> Linux sees the CD-ROM as a Matshita ATAPI and ism set to /dev/hdh with a
> symbolic link to /dev/cdrom. The mount point is /mnt/cdrom.
>
> Now for a twist!
>
> Last night I resinstalled Linux. After rebooting from the install process
> I count mount the CDROM but when I went to umount the CDROM I received the
> same errors as above. After that I count mount the CD either.
>
> HELP!
>
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