I had this problem w/ a CDROM once, I swithced out the drive and that seemed to fix it.
On Monday 16 June 2003 11:07 am, you wrote: > On 16 Jun 2003, at 10:29, Mathieu Masse wrote: > > I posted this on the list last Friday and got no responses so I am > > posting again... > > > > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 14:03, Mathieu Masse wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > > > Small issue with my CDROM drive, when I try to install rpm's or other > > > programs from my CDROM drive sometimes it just hangs. I mean the drive > > > hangs, it stops spinning at high speed and just tries to seek and goes > > > nowhere, it always results in the application calling the CDROM drive > > > to just spit out an error and stop. Sometimes I even have to eject the > > > CD to make it stop. > > > > > > I am running RH9.0 on a x86, with a CD-956E/AKV, ATAPI CDROM drive. > > > What could be my problem. I know the drive is good since I have a dual > > > boot system with W2K and it fine in windows. > > Is there anything else on the IDE channel with the drive? What > sorts of DMA settings are you using on it and other drives (man > hdparm)? Are there any other things you're doing at the time or is it > pretty much random with nothing else going on at times? > > I don't use KDE or Gnome, but there's supposed to be something > that autodetects media put into the CD drive that's been known to > cause problems (automount or something similar is the name) in > one or both. > > I know I used nautilus a long while back and it caused problems for > me in a like manner. I ended up uninstalling it. I doubt that's > causing it as I don't recall seeing any complaints along that line in > awhile, but that doesn't rule it out completely. -- Michael S. Dunsavage -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
