Greetings all,
I recently bought an HP Omnibook 800CT at a computer show for school, and am
in the process of wiping it clean and installing Mandrake 7. Minor problem
though... DrakeX doesn't seem to like my PCMCIA CD drive.
Just as a quick background, I'm using the 7.02 ISO burned to a CD, along
with the PCMCIA boot floppy (and I have the standard CDROM boot floppy if
needed). The CD drive is a Toshiba 10x model something, standard IDE,
connected to the laptop through a CitiROM PCMCIA IDE controller.
Bootup through the install floppy and everything runs fine, and PCMCIA
Services start up perfectly, as the CD drive gets power through the PCMCIA
card (obviously Services need to be on to turn on the controller, and you
get the idea...). But when I go to select CD and then IDE-CD, DrakeX states
that it can't find the CD drive.
Here is the output from the message tracker on console #4. I post just the
part that I think is involved as I have dealt with Linux PCMCIA before, and
for all reasons the card manager loads fine:
<30> Feb 7 17:22:54 cardmgr[17]: executing: './ide start hdc'
<30> Feb 7 17:22:54 cardmgr[17]: + cat: not found.
<30> Feb 7 17:22:54 cardmgr[17]: + ./ide: ./MAKEDEV: not found
<30> Feb 7 17:22:54 cardmgr[17]: + ./ide: /sbin/ide_info: not found
<30> Feb 7 17:22:54 cardmgr[17]: + usage: ./ide [action] [device name]
<30> Feb 7 17:22:54 cardmgr[17]: + actions: start check stop suspend
resume
<30> Feb 7 17:22:54 cardmgr[17]: start cmd exited with status 1
So there it is. Obviously, if I could somehow drop into a command line and
manually run the command(s) by myself, things would be peachy. But there's
no way to drop to a command line... Grr...
Any ideas? Thanks!
Scott Balmos ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
