On Wednesday 02 October 2002 10:26 am, St�phane Teletch�a wrote: > Le Mercredi 2 Octobre 2002 17:18, vous avez �crit : > > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, H. Narfi Stefansson wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm now running 9.0, but I can't get it to work while my CD writer > > > is connected to my motherboard > > > I was unable to install with the drive connected to the motherboard, > > > so I disconnected, installed without it and have since tried to > > > reconnect the drive and boot. All those attempts have resulted in > > > lockups. > > > > Try to use hdparm and define a /etc/sysconfig/hardiskhdX (where X is the > letter for your cd). In this config, uncomment dma=1 and move it to > DMA=0. > > Reboot and see if it copes your problem. > This was sound advice but did not work. I've tried to connect the cdrw to the motherboard or to a controller card and tried to access it without dma, alas no success. Any access to the device with hdparm resulted in a lockup when the drive was on the motherboard. When I connected it to a controller card, I could remove the dma assignment [I used hdparm -d0 /dev/hda; hdparm -k1 /dev/hda;], but I still had lockups on subsequent reboots. Yes, on a later reboot, I verified that the drive had stored the dma=0 assignment.
I don't mean for these to sound like support questions -- I just happen to think that a failure to install and hard lockups on a new release are worth investigating -- I hope you agree, Narfi. ps. I couldn't install 8.2 with the CDwriter on my motherboard, but I didn't investigate that any further since it worked on my controller card. However, I'm a little more patient now, and the drive won't work on either of them...
