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Old 03-20-2002, 06:41 AM   #1
summeet
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cd not working


i've installed red hat linux 7.2. it's detected as seen with the dmesg command. but whenever i try to access it, the pc hangs. i've tried making it master on another ide cable.
 
Old 03-20-2002, 07:22 AM   #2
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I've had many issues pertaining to cdroms before. Here's my advice.

1. su to root

2. if posible have cdrom run on seperate ide( you've already done that)

3. If you just switch from running slave off 1st ide make sure your this is reflected in /etc/fstab you should see a line similar to this
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,ro,noauto 0 0

3. type the following with cd in drive
umount /dev/hdc
mount /dev/hdc
cat /var/log/syslog
look to see that you cdrom is what its suppose to be
cd /mnt/cdrom
ls
cat /var/log/syslog
look for any other errors

4. type cat /proc/interrupts look at bottom two lines they should read
14: xxxxxx xxxx ide0(1st ide is on irq 14)
15: xxx xxxx ide1(2nd ide is on irq 15)

5. If everything looks right but your cdrom still hang you might need to recompile kernel for direct support vs modular. also do a man hdparm read very carefully and perhaps disable things like dma.
 
Old 03-20-2002, 08:56 AM   #3
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CD-rom access

Accessing the CD-rom:
is this without X running?
if so which manager are you using?
You just made it sound like you just built this PC. If not, did this configuration work before? Lets get back to basics. first HD should be on the first (0) IDE controller. The CD-Rom should be slave on the first (0) IDE controller. What kind of HD do you have? Western Digitial is very perticulite in how its setup I find. As for the desktop eviroment question I was asking in the beginning, GNOME really had trouble with one of my cd drives but KDE worked with it better. It actually turned out to be a supermount problem. Well here are some tips and the one before is good advise as well.
 
Old 03-25-2003, 11:48 PM   #4
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theneoprotocol,
About the supermount problem. What was it and how did you fix it? My problem is that my cd-rom shows up but every time I click on it I get this error: "Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory file:/auto/sr0 does not exist." Does anyone know how to fix this?
 
  


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