Re: [PLUG] cdrom mounting

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

On Monday 10 June 2002 12:08 pm, Sean Finney wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:29:15AM -0400, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:

> >  hda:hda: dma_intr: status=0x65 { DriveReady DeviceFault
> > CorrectedError Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError
> > }
>
> this is probably unrelated, but you can fix that error (and I'd
> imagine improve performance) if you compile yourself a new kernel
> with the setting
>
> CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y.
>
> I don't think I've ever gotten this on a hard drive before, but I've
> needed to do this in the past to get the cdrom drive to work.  hey,
> wait a minute.. :)  well, if this is your problem, you should see a
> whole bunch of error messages like the one above but for /dev/hdb in
> /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages or in the actual dmesg after
> trying to mount a cdrom a few times.  so try mounting your favorite
> cd a few times, and then
>
> grep set_multmode /var/log/*
>
> and
>
> dmesg | grep set_multmode
>
> > ide-floppy driver 0.97
> > hdb: driver not present
> > ide-floppy driver 0.97
> > hdb: driver not present> > PDC20267: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 
dev 78
> > PDC20267: chipset revision 2
> > PDC20267: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> > PDC20267: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI
> > Mode. ide2: BM-DMA at 0xfe80-0xfe87, BIOS settings: hde:pio,
> > hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0xfe88-0xfe8f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio,
> > hdh:pio hdb: LTN526D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
>

I don't want to tackle this until I have the cdrom problem straightened 
out.  I'll come back to it then, and will probably need more help.


>
> > ide-floppy driver 0.97
> > hdb: driver not present
>
> also, this tells me you might need a custom driver module for your
> cdrom drive, if things still don't work.  and I don't know why it
> looks like it's trying to load an ide-floppy driver for /dev/hdb...
>

I hope Bill is right and this is a message for the zip drive.  One of 
the reasons the woman recommended the drive to me was that it was 
"nothing fancy"/needs no special drivers ATAPI.  Also, the install 
program seemed to have no problem mounting and using the same cdrom.

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