Hi,
Just got an external cd-writer. It's connected to my notebook via pcmcia
card.
What I did: Mandrake 8.1, Kernel 2.4.8 (the standard Mandrake type).
I installed the pcmcia things and the slot works. I tested it with a ATA
card and could mount the thing and read the files.
Problem:
The card was not detected at bootup so I had to switch it from
cardbus-mode to 16-bit mode. It gets detected now (2 high beeps)
But I cannot mount a cdrom from that Sony device.
>From /var/log/messages:
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[...]
kernel: Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe:
kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:03.0
kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:01.4
kernel: O2Micro OZ6812 rev 05 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:03, mem 0x10000000
kernel: host opts [0]: [ring] [pci/way] [pciirq 11] [lat 168/176] [bus 2/5]
kernel: ISA irqs (default) = 3,4,5,7,9,12 PCI status changes
kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0380-0x047f: clean.
kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0490-0x04cf: clean.
kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x04d8-0x04ff: clean.
kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
kernel: hde: SONY CD-RW CRX700E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
kernel: ide2 at 0x180-0x187,0x386 on irq 3
kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.97
kernel: hde: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache
kernel: ATAPI device hde:
kernel: Error: Not ready -- (Sense key=0x02)
kernel: Incompatible medium installed -- (asc=0x30, ascq=0x00)
kernel: The failed "Test Unit Ready" packet command was:
kernel: "00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
kernel: ide_cs: hde: Vcc = 5.0, Vpp = 0.0
[...]
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Any ideas what I can do? Werner Heuser (Linux on the Road) lists the Sony
device as "working" on his site (www.mobilix.org) but I could not find a
solution.
Furthermore the dev-system of Mandrake made a broken link from /dev/hde
to /dev/ide/....../disk instead of ...../cd.
wobo
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