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

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