On Saturday 13 January 2001 07:33 pm, Jon Dowd wrote:
> I'm trying to use an older CD-ROM drive, but am getting error
> messages at startup. I have a dual boot machine and the CD-ROM drive
> works ok under Windows. I have included the output of dmesg.
==
> hdd: lost interrupt
==
> hdc:hdc: irq timeout: status=0xff { Busy }
> hdc: DMA disabled
Well, there's a lot there, but mostly it smacks of marginal and/or
misconfigured hardware. You've got some problems on ide1 (second ide),
_both_ drives (hdc and hdd) . "works ok under Windows" is a derogatory
statement. Windoze' claim to fame is a tolerance for poor hardware/
sloppy configuration. Hell, Billy seems to encourage it.... more'n
more lately.
Both the master HDD on ide1 and the slave Cdrom are havin problems.
Check your connections (eg, re-seat ide cable) and bios config's.
Double check the jumper setings. If one or both are set to 'cable
select', that might be the problem. hdc should be set MS, hdd should be
set SL, but it might be better to have that second ide HDD as a slave
on ide0(?) I've got'a feelin one or both those ide1 drives has a
yellow! by it in windoze device manager.
Post the results of (as root) 'hdparm -i /dev/hdc' and 'hdparm -i
/dev/hdd' plus 'hdparm -v /dev/hdc' and ../hdd' might help too.
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Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
