On Saturday 21 July 2001 07:11, Eaon wrote:
> On 20 Jul 2001 23:55:39 -0400, Larry Braden wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Hope this isn't an old hat problem, but I'm getting input/output errors
> > when I open a terminal to /mnt/cdrom. This is the case with root and
> > users. FSTAB says supermount is set up for iso9660. Any ideas on what I
> > need to do? The OS was just freshly installed.
> >
> > thanks sincerely,
> >
> > Larry Braden,
> > Catonsville, MD 21228
>
> Larry,
>
> What kind of drive is it? IDE or SCSI? I hadn't seen this problem
> before a few nights ago, but then installed Mandrake Freq #2 on a
> different system than I normally run cooker on, and it has an Adaptec
> 2930CU card and an HP 9210 CDRW drive (the cooker system is all IDE).
> Last night went to install a few packages in rpmdrake and it popped out
> CD 1 and asked me to insert CD 2. But it didn't remount properly. It
> showed me about a dozen rpms, all in the root directory of the disc, and
> then one directory having the same name as one of the packages, that
> seemed to be a recursive link to the same directory of those same dozen
> packages. Verified the CD in another system (and on the same system but
> booted into Windows, so on the same drive) and the disc was fine. Did
> some more digging, and it seems that if I boot with the drive empty, the
> first disc I put in is fine. If I change discs, I either get an
> input/output error, or some bizarrely mounted disc like I described. If
> I boot with a disc in the drive, that disc gets mounted fine during
> boot, but as soon as I take it out I start getting VFS messages ("inode
> busy" messages of some sort) as soon as I eject the disc. If I close
> the tray empty, the messages keep going. Close it with a different disc
> in it and I again get either an input/output error or some crazy mount
> that doesn't work. My gut feeling is it has something to do with the
> SCSI drivers. Anyone?
>
> (My gut feeling comes from the fact that the SCSI drivers in the kernel
> used for the install are totally broken - over 3 hours to install the
> RPMs because the driver doesn't talk nicely to the card - I trust the
> next Mandrake Freq release with fix this...?)
Only one and it isn't broken. It was a new driver responding to firmware
changes on the Adaptec SCSI cards. If you update the firmware on your card,
that driver works fine. A few weeks later, of course, a new unified driver
was issued...
Anyway, that was overshadowed in that Freq by fixes for the Promise and other
off-board IDE controllers and for the IBM trackpoint (the running kernel
actually recognizes it though the install image alternative has to be used to
get it going).
You can also rmmod aic7xxx modprobe aic7xxx_old and you should(tm) be fine,
too.
Civileme
>
> Eaon
