Re: 2.3.43: IDE CD mount(8) hangs; ditto SysRq

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Date: Sun Feb 13 2000 - 07:18:28 EST


Andre Hedrick <andre@suse.com> said:
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:

[...]

> > 2.2.15pre6 and 2.3.42aa3 gave:

> > kernel: hdd: ide_wait_noerr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > kernel: hdd: ide_wait_noerr: error=0xb4
> > kernel: hdd: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Er
> ror }
> > kernel: hdd: set_drive_speed_status: error=0xb4
> > kernel: hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
> > kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.06

> > (Revision 2.56 doesn't give any of this nonsense)

> Translation of "this nonsense"......

> Your CDROM can not handle the full throttle auto-tuning, the is a problem
> with the device's firmware or other hardware. If your drive behaved well
> and responded correctly to the active-hardware correction of the BIOS
> settings, it would have never barffed the message.

Why doesn't it give trouble with revision 2.56 of the driver then?

> > It is identified as CRD-8400C, ATAPI CDROM drive, alone on ide1.

This is a generic (low-cost) CD drive, so the possible firmware (or other
hardware) problems do sound possible.

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