Hey

I'm trying to install Slackware 10.0 on an old computer i got out of the closet the other day, thats still in fine working condition.

System
Intel Pentium 166 MHz
64MD RAM
Seagate 3.4 Gig HD
Unknown 1.7 Gig HD
Samsung SC-140B CD-ROM (x40)


So the BIOS detects all the HD's and CD-ROM, and Slackware 10 boots from the CD fine. I then partition my HD's fine. Now when i run setup, setting my swap and formatting my HD's goes fine, but when it comes to choosing the installation medium and I select CD-ROM, it fails to detect my CD-ROM.

However, the CD Drive does spin, so it appears as if it is accessing it to some extent.

Ive tried putting the CD-ROM on a different IDE channel and also tried forcing it to detect the CDROM at boot. Ive also manually selected the right hdx from the list myself, but with no success. Ive had a look at the different Kernels, but theres no mention of a special one needed for any Samsung drives and this CD-ROM isn't that old as it was originally from my P3.

Also i tried with Mandrake 10 with the same problem, and I've tried mounting it myself.

Thanks for any help.

Okay Ive fixed it, I jsut had to disable DMA on the drive.

After 2 days of attempted installlation of Slackware 10 this worked great!!
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On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 09:18:10AM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:

Disabling DMA on hdc should make it work.
You can do that by: echo using_dma:0 > /proc/ide/hdc/settings

Hey, this is the exact same problem I have. Same model CD-ROM drive too. Interesting.

All,

I'm trying somewhat the same thing, except with Mandrake v9.2 on a HP Brio BA400 and I'm having the same result... :-( Where do I enter that 'echo' string during the install ?!

Thanks
-bruce

I think i am also having this problem on slackware 10 , so if you could tell me where to input the command, that'll be great.

Okay, here is how you disable DMA to hopefully get slackware working.

When Slackware boots, the first thing your greeted with is a Welcoming screen in which you choose which kernel you want to boot. The screen also tells you how you can pass paramaters to the kernel at this stage. This is what you want to do, pass it a disable DMA paramater. To do this, after entering your kernel to boot of choice, type "ide=nodma".

e.g.

boot: bare.i ide=nodma

The example uses bare.i, the deafault kernel, but you can ofcourse replace that with your kernel of choice.

Thanx , i will give it a try.

Thanks dlinn, that worked great