Dear List,
Last week, I sent a plea to the list asking for help with installing Slackware and Debian. As a result of that, John Seago kindly delivered his CD sets to me and now I've got Slackware 8 installed and working. It turns out that I had two problems: (1) the Crazy Penguin CDs were no good, and (2) my 12X CD drive kept locking up when installing .TGZ files to HD - if I copied the files to the DOS partition first and installed from there, it worked. My CD drive problem appeared to be solved by getting hold of an old IDE 2X Wearnes drive - that installed Slackware from the CDs, slowly, but without any further problems.
Encouraged, I tried installing Debian 2.2r3 from John's CDs. Firstly, it claimed that it couldn't find /cdrom/ (having already installed the 'base system' from CD...) but I seemed to overcome that by installing a different 'flavor' of system - I'd tried idepci at first, but ended up with the 'vanilla' one (is that the right term??). Having installed the abse system, I then got as far as choosing the packages to install. Unfortunately, part way through the package installation, I got these messages:
hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy} hdc: ATAPI reset complete hdc: status error: status=0x58 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest} hdc: drive not ready for command (etc.)
A new line, similar to those above, would appear every few seconds. The CD LED was permanently on and I couldn't open the drawer. Very similar to the problems I was having with the 12X drive last week.
So I'm stumped (again) and my question (eventually!) is: where do I go from here? Why does the CD drive get locked up like this? (And why didn't it happen whilst installing Slackware 8?)
Sorry if I seem very stupid asking these questions, but I'm desperate for an answer. (Details: P166-MMX with 64Mb RAM, Cirrus 5446 video onboard, 3Gb HD on hda and IDE CD drive on hdc) Any clues will be very gratefully received!
All the best,
Gerald.
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Edenyard wrote:
So I'm stumped (again) and my question (eventually!) is: where do I go from here? Why does the CD drive get locked up like this? (And why didn't it happen whilst installing Slackware 8?)
Sorry if I seem very stupid asking these questions, but I'm desperate for an answer. (Details: P166-MMX with 64Mb RAM, Cirrus 5446 video onboard, 3Gb HD on hda and IDE CD drive on hdc) Any clues will be very gratefully received!
What kind of io chipset does your motherboard have? as there are a couple that have bugs under linux. That may be something to look at.
Adam
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Adam Bower wrote:
What kind of io chipset does your motherboard have? as there are a couple that have bugs under linux. That may be something to look at.
sorry not io, I meant ide.
Adam
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 13:59:07 Adam Bower wrote:
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Adam Bower wrote:
What kind of io chipset does your motherboard have? as there are a couple that have bugs under linux. That may be something to look at.
sorry not io, I meant ide.
Well most I/O functions tend to be integrated into the same chip and the IDE interface will be one component of that.
Still I guess what we really need to know is what chipset the IDE interface appears to be from a software point of view, so we are looking for lines from the output of dmesg like the following:
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx AMD7409: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 AMD7409: chipset revision 3 AMD7409: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later AMD7409: disabling single-word DMA support (revision < C4) ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
But obviously with the AMD7409 replaced with whatever your chipset is. IIRC the CMD640 and the RZ1000 chipsets had bugs that required a specific work around to be enabled in the kernel's IDE driver but there may be others too.
Steve.
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