Date sent: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:20:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Jay Summet for [EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: RE: [expert] Block device not recognised - no CDROM!
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> I'm not sure if this is going to help, but I also had problems with my
> CD-Rom when updating from 5.3 to 6.0. The change is that in 6.0 the
> kernel uses DMA by default for CD-Roms, while in 5.3 it did not.
>
> My problem was that my cd-rom was buggy and would crash the computer
> whenever I tried to mount it.
> I used the hdparm program to tell the kernel not to use DMA for the cdrom,
> something like: "hdparm -d0 /dev/hdb" and it fixed my problems. Not sure
> if DMA vs nonDMA is your problem though, but that is one change from 5.3
> to 6.0
Jay
thanks for the suggestion - have tried this but the problem seems
to be that the kernel won't recognise the presence of /dev/hdc - the
above command returns 'no such device' !!
cheers for the input!
Bob
