On Friday 14 March 2003 07:56 am, Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Friday 14 March 2003 09:32 am, Brook Humphrey wrote:
> > On the other hand the thing that gets me is cdrom/dvdrom I've seen quite
> > a few times these devices when they are going bad. Durring install they
> > well get all kinds of lost interupt errors on screen 4 you will be able
> > to easily see this. The ide bus will reset itself but then it just goes
> > back to lost interupt errors. This will continue until you 1) eject the
> > cdrom from the cd drive or two stop the install by rebooting the system.
> > If you do 1 above you may be able to continue the install but the cdrom
> > may go back to lost interupts so it's not a for sure. This activity will
> > always occur during package instelation. In every case this has happened
> > replacing the defective drive has solved the issues.
>
> This can also occur on uni-processor machines with poor apic
> implementations. Turning off apic support in the bios and the kernel can
> solve the problem also.
Hm intereting thanks for the input but it's just me. If a cdrom is going to
out in a few months I would rather replace it or stick it on the windows box
since windows cant tell even after it dies.
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