Re: hdc: no response (status = 0xd0)
Zlatko Rek writes:
> I've installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 on a new machine from CD. The basic
> installation went OK, until I made a reboot. After that, the CD drive
> is not recognized (boot from floppy or disk):
>
> ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf
> hda: WDC AC34300L, 4104MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=523/255/63, UDMA
> hdc: no response (status = 0xd0)
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>
> but, if I boot from CD and mount /dev/hda2 as root partition, the CD drive
> is recognized:
>
> ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf
> hda: WDC AC34300L, 4104MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=523/255/63, UDMA
> hdc: ATAPI CDROM, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
>
> The kernel is from kernel-image-2.0.34_2.0.34-4.deb and I also tried with
> custom kernel, with no success.
>
> What to do? Any help is appreciated.
>
EASY, your CDROM drive does not like being programmed as a "master" drive.
Reset it to slave mode and put it behind a master hard drive (as /dev/hdb). I
ran into this very same problem myself. After resetting my CDROM from "master"
to "slave", it has performed flawlessly.
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