I will try that, also I would never consider using a WD HDD.
Rolf Pedersen writes:
> Igor Izyumin wrote:
>> On Saturday 21 September 2002 08:29 pm, Avi Goldstein wrote:
>>
>>> Stalls on:
>>>
>>> Trying to load /tmp/image/Mandrake/base/mdkinst_stage2.bz2 as a ramdisk
>>>
>>> rom_decode_status: status=0x51 {DriveReadt SeekComplete Error}
>>> cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
>>>
>>
>> This might be a problem with your CD-ROM drive or your media. What
>> make/model is it? Do other versions of Mandrake work on it? Did you do
>> something like cat /dev/cdrom |md5sum and compare that to the CD image
>> checksum?
>
> You might try to press F1 and type "linux ide=nodma" for cd-rom drive
> transfer problems or, if your hd is Western Digital, read this:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg60691.html
>
> -though the latter does not seem directly implicated; bonus link ;)
>
>
