Re: Do I own an unsupported optical IDE drive?
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 20:47 +0200, Horace Dynamite wrote:
> On 22 July 2011 18:27, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:54:00 +0100, Horace Dynamite wrote:
> >
> >> On 22 July 2011 16:43, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Uff, have you tried with another IDE cable? Those seem hardware errors.
> >>
> >> I installed the Debian system using this optical drive, so I think this
> >> proves that my optical drive and IDE cable are working properly, for, it
> >> was only three days ago that I installed Debian. Is that true?
> >
> > Well, the unit can be in its finals days and the fact you could install
> > from it with no apparent/visible errors is not a proof of its health...
> > BTW, how old is it?
>
> 2 years old. I've just booted into a Ubuntu Live CD, which I believe
> implies the electronics are working.
>
> > Then you can re-sit the current one, just in case it has been slightly
> > moved or became loose.
>
> I took it out, re-sat, booted the LiveCD again, it worked. Yet I still
> get these hardware errors.
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Horace.
>
>
How is your drive reported by the kernel.
As SCSI/ATA or IDE ?
On my machine, the kernel boots as SCSI/ATA with IDE devices.
I rebuilt my custom kernel, where it can boot as E-IDE with IDE devices.
On linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 - debian default kernel
tcat@lynx:~$ dmesg | grep scsi
[ 2.299497] scsi0 : pata_via
[ 2.300477] scsi1 : pata_via
[ 2.698385] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM SONY CD-RW CRX160E
1.0e PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 2.803991] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
On my custom ide kernel, linux-image-2.6.32-10.00.Custom
tcat@lynx:~$ dmesg | grep hdc
[ 3.880272] hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX160E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[ 4.720357] hdc: host max PIO5 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
[ 4.725161] hdc: UDMA/33 mode selected
[ 5.142772] ide-cd: hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 4096kB Cache
Just curious, not sure if I can help.
I am struggling with a lot of new stuff in Squeeze.
Regards
--
Tomas Kral <thomas.kral@email.cz>
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