THIRD TIME ... Please help !
Hello again,
I have recently purchased hamm on cd from dvd rent (Victoria, Australia)
and tried MANY times to install
However, i get consistent errors:
hdc: irq timeout: statue 0xd0
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: irq timeout: status 0xd0
end_request: I/O error, dev=16:00, sector <nnn>
note thaat <nnn> is a number that changes on every occurrentce of the error
i also noted on 1 occasion that statue 0x00 was reported (can't perfectly
recall the rest of the erorr but i
believe it was as above except the status changed
sometimes this just loops for a while, other times dselect advises that the
file is non-existant (when you know and i know fine well that the file DOES
exist) then continues and other times dselect just carries on
unpacking/skipping files. when dselect does continue, the cd rom behaves
as though there was chewing gum around the spindle - incredibly slow
Also, it is often that the cd rom will refuse to boot or boots VERRRRRRRY
slowly when booting from it.
So far i have tried:
warm booting from cd (so windows drivers stay in place ?)
cold booting (including leaving machine turned off overnight in case cd rom
was overheating)
booting from DOS
and have on 1/3 tries managed to get to dselect where sooner or later
(normally sooner!) above errors appear
i have also tried, after having installed the base system:
* edit /etc/lilo.conf; insert "hdc=cdrom / hdc=noprobe" as two seperate
lines in file (picked this up from an old post to this list - i'm sorry to
say that i don't know what it is supposed to do or whether it is correct ?)
* edit /etc/lilo.conf; insert "hdc=cdrom hdc=serialize" as two
seperate lines in file (see above - sorry)
* mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom and asking dselect to read to from
mounted partition
* edit /etc/fstab; insert "/dev/hdc iso9660 /cdrom"; don't reboot/reboot
(both) immediately after editing file and asking dselect to read from
partition listed in /etc/fstab
i have also discovered that i cannot ftp to myself at the moment !
i started copying the whole cd to my linux partition but after waiting 10
minutes or more (without errors though) reset the machine figuring there
wouldn't be enough room for the whole cd plus the installation (maybe not
enough for the cd alone ?) just to prove that the cd was readable
windows reads the cd well enough and i have traversed the entire directory
tree trying to get windows to report an error - no result
the cdrom is an ATAPI 24X Diamond Data (which i believe is manufactured by
Mitsubishi)
other h/ware is a 2Gb hard-drive make unknown (sorry again!)
a sb-16 (genuine) - either it came packaged with the cd rom or the other
way round
2Mb S3d ViRGE video card
P133
1.44Mb floppy
32Mb RAM
33.6K modem
so far i have achieved
- getting reasonably silly on some lovely, very expensive red wine that i
was saving
- avoiding throwing said red wine all over computer
- massive amounts of frustration
- deep regrets that i didn't further congest the i/net bandwidth by ftp'ing
the whole distribution (as i have done about 3 times previously)
any help given will be deeply appreciated
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