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Hi Marco,
CD is primary because as slave the 2nd HDD disappears. This way although
the BIOS can't autodetect the CD, it finds it on boot up. When I
installed the 2nd HDD, I thought that the HDD was the problem & replaced
it, but the new one behaved just the same. So I left it as it is now and
thought no more of it. Windows worked okay like that (well, as well as
it ever does), so I left it.
I've just tried to install Red Hat and have come across a different, but
similar problem. The setup hangs when I get to try to install from CD.
I've got Debian loaded (using dbc=cdrom), but I get the same timeout
messages when I try to access the CD.
I'm coming to the conclusion that it's a) a 'feature' of Linux, b) a
duff CD drive, or c) a duff ide controller. 'c' seems less likely as I'm
sure I tried all combinations and got the same trouble on the 1st
controller.
Trouble is I don't know Linux at all, and this seems to be too much of a
'newbie' problem to get much response.
Windows is getting up my nose and I can't get Linux to work - maybe I
ought to go back to DOS 3.0 and microstar ;-)
Thanks for your help, and if you or anyone else has any ideas, or
anywhere else I can go to ask my stupid questions, I'd be very grateful,
Ian
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As I said before, I'm a complete novice at Debian Linux. Once I'm set up
it'll be a bit better as I have worked on a Unix box before.
System:
Intel 233mmx
32Mb
HD as Primary on 1st controller
Pioneer DR-A24X CDrom as Pri on 2nd
Hd as slave on 2nd
The cdrom is badged as a Pioneer (and shows up on boot as one) but loads
gscdrom.sys so I presume it's got Goldstar connections somewhere.
On boot:
Loading root.bin..........
Loading Linux...............
hdc shows up as Pioneer
Get past Color screen
Get Release notes
Get detecting hardware settings
Then...
hdc: irq timeout: status=0x51
hdc: irq timeout: error 0x20
hdc: irq timeout: status=0x51
<snip>
end_request: IO/error, dev 16:00, sector 0
hdc: irq timeout: status=0x51
hdc: irq timeout: status=0x51
hdc: irq timeout: status=0x51
hdc: irq timeout: status=0x51
hdc ATAPI reset complete
above 5 lines repeat ad infinitum
Any ideas? Or places to go for help?
I found the archives and read about 3 months-worth, but can't find
anything similar.
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>
>just a question: why did you have your cd as primary and an Hd as
secondary?
>If it's ide/atapi, it doesn't matter what brand name it has
>I'm not an expert, but you could:
>- try to put a disk (a cd-rom) into the drive before booting
>- detach cdrom and see if you machine boots cleany
>
>HTH
>
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