Yann-Erick Proy wrote:
>
> Tom Gwilt a �crit :
>
> [...]
> > Western Digital 6.4G HD
> [...]
> >
> > The install seems to be hanging whenever the machine tries to access the
> > hard drive. The following 3 messages occur:
> >
> > (4)hda: IRQ timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy}
> > (4)hda: drive not ready for command
> > (4)ide0: reset: success
> >
> > They will repeat and eventually this message pops up:
> >
> > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector (fill in a number)
>
> I don't know if you already have checked this issue but it could be
> merely hardware related.
I just finished installing Mandrake 6.0 on a fairly vanilla machine. It
was quite painful.
The error message which you are seeing was one of the many problems.
The fix is in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:
replace
hdparm -q -c1 -q -A1 -q -m16 -q -d1 /dev/$i
with
hdparm -q -c1 -q -A1 -q -m16 -q /dev/$i
Other problems: it complains that there's an I/O address overlap between
my IBM Etherjet ISA network card and my on-board SB16 clone. The fix
was to disable PnP in the BIOS and build everything by hand.
Probing failed to recognise the cs89x0 - based ethernet card, so I had
to manually add this to /etc/conf.modules and created the startup
scripts using netcfg.
alias eth0 cs89x0
options cs89x0 io=0x0210
Probing failed to recognise the SB16 clone so I manually entered the
device info in 'sndconfig'.
It still complains about the overlapping I/O address range at 0x0210,
(something to do with PnP) but it comes up OK.
A newbie would have been defeated by all this. Linux has a way to go
yet.
