Re: IDE CD-ROM IRQ

[Paul Seelig <pseelig@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>]

lgdutra@originet.com.br (Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra) writes:

>     I'm performing an installation from CD-ROM on a Compaq Deskpro 4000
> with a CreativeLabs 8x IDE CD-ROM.
> 
>     During dselect, the machine comes to a crawl (including the other
> virtual consoles), almost unusable, and the instalation of each packages
> takes minutes. The console is filled by many, many lines of these
> messages:
> 
> hdb: ATAPI reset complete
> hdb: irq timeout: status=0x58
> 
I've once had this on a friend's machine with a Goldstar 8x IDE CD-ROM
used as "/dev/hdc".  After simply upgrading to kernel 2.0.33 this
mysteriously disappeared. That's no explanation of the problem though.

                                Cheers, P. *8^)
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