On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 16:08:51 +0800 (PHT), Manny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone help me witha wierd CD/RW/DVD problem? > > I run Fedora Core 2 with the latest kernel on an Athlon XP 1700, 256MB > RAM, 2 HDD. It also has a a CDROM drive (hdd) and a DVD/CDRW Writer drive > (hdc). Both used to work, but that was when the CDROM was /dev/hdb and the > writer was /dev/hdd. I put both CD devices on the second IDE bus. Then all > of a sudden I had problems. > > Basically, it takes about 90-120 seconds for the CD drives to mount. I get > errors like: > > DMA retry > DMA timeout > (followed by a bunch of drive seek errors)
what's the output of hdparm /dev/hdd? if using_dma is on, try disabling it: hdparm -d0 /dev/hdd -- roderick e. tapang retapang at gmail dot com (o_.' http://counter.li.org/ //\ ---------------------- V_/_ Linux User # 253842 -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
