Problems with Acer CD-RW 8432IA
hi all
I've been trying to get my new Acer CD-RW drive working with no luck so far (after 4-5 weeks - on and off).
I first tried under Win98 SE and Win2000 (including updating firmware, motherboard drivers & ASPI layer
etc.) - but Windows would sometimes not detect the drive at all, or hang when running Explorer or hang
when starting a burn.
I'm now trying to get it working under Linux (which if it doesn't work I'm taking it back to the shop). I've
followed all the steps from the CD-Writing-HOWTO, but I'm getting similar problems to those under Windows
(ie. using cdrecord through Xcdroast or gcombust hangs the system for 10-15 secs and then aborts
with an "Illegal address", "check condition" or another error.
Here's the output from 'dmesg' - which to me looks a-ok:
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Linux version 2.2.17 (root@suede) (gcc version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)) #1 SMP Mon Jan 8 12:45:23 WST 2001
mapped APIC to ffffe000 (0028c000)
Detected 451028 kHz processor.
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 897.84 BogoMIPS
Memory: 184496k/188352k available (940k kernel code, 424k reserved, 2440k data, 52k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 256k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k)
Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K L1 D Cache: 32K
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K L1 D Cache: 32K
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 12.48 usecs.
CPU0: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c
SMP motherboard not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb280
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536)
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
request_module[parport_lowlevel]: Root fs not mounted
lp: no devices found
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.13)
apm: disabled on user request.
Linux telephony interface: v1.00
$Id: ixj.c,v 3.31 2000/04/14 19:24:47 jaugenst Exp $
SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 01
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: ST38410A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: QUANTUM BIGFOOT_CY2160A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: 8X4X32, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: ST38410A, 8223MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1048/255/63
hdb: QUANTUM BIGFOOT_CY2160A, 2014MB w/67kB Cache, CHS=1023/64/63
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP line discipline registered.
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > hda3 hda4
hdb: hdb1
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 52k freed
Adding Swap: 257032k swap-space (priority -1)
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: ATAPI Model: CD-R/RW 8X4X32 Rev: 5.AX
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
PPP BSD Compression module registered
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After booting, the 'lsmod' command shows the following modules installed:
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Module Size Used by
ppp_deflate 39392 0 (autoclean)
soundcore 2564 0 (autoclean) (unused)
bsd_comp 3880 0
vfat 8988 2
fat 29056 2 [vfat]
sr_mod 16968 0 (unused)
sg 12256 0 (unused)
ide-scsi 7252 0
ide-cd 22936 0
cdrom 26332 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
scsi_mod 51512 3 [sr_mod sg ide-scsi]
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I've configured most of the drivers as modules, as compiling them into the kernel didn't work either.
If anyone can see where I'm going wrong I'd appreciate it ... otherwise I'm going to put it down as
either a motherboard or CD-RW hardware error ... and the CD-RW is easier to replace!
thanks
Andrew
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Andrew McRobert
B.Sc.(Comp. Sci.) LL.B LL.M
Info. Tech. Liaison Officer
School of Law
MURDOCH UNIVERSITY
Ph: + 61 8 9360 6479
Fax: + 61 8 9310 6671
e-mail: a.mcrobert@murdoch.edu.au
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