CD-RW help 2 (Re: [Nottingham] Request for CDW help)
Martin
nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Fri Jun 13 14:46:01 2003
Martin wrote:
[...]
> Try searching the news groups on www.google.com for your details...
> There may well be some other out there with the same setup and already
> blundered through the same fix...
Taking my own advice and much searching later... Looks like this is an
old problem with kernels freezing in the past, but which should now have
been long fixed.
I've followed examples playing with various permutations of:
"hdg=ide-scsi hde=ide-scsi" or one or neither in the lilo append line;
along with
"options ide-cd ignore="hdg"" or not in modules.conf.
Depending on the permutation, I get a complete system freeze at one of
the two points as described below. Leaving disks in the DVD and cd-rom
doesn't clear the freeze up. The only changes noted during multiple
rebootings is that the number of files in /dev changes. Not found any
pertinent messages in the logs (:-((. So, I'm stumped.
Help?
Martin
Further details:
> My Sony CD-RW causes a system freeze when I do not have hdg=none
> specified or if instead I have hdg=ide-scsi. Not specifying it still
> causes a freeze up.
>
> To recap:
>
> hdg=none: and all works fine except no CD-RW!
>
> hdg=ide-scsi: freeze during boot
>
> Last onscreen boot message is:
> Finding module dependencies: [OK]
>
> Next message would be:
> Starting up RAID devices
>
> and specifying nothing on the lilo append line lets bootup complete
> through to starting X, to then cause a complete freeze up as soon as I
> try to logon.
>
> Mandrake 9.1 on an MSI K7T266 Pro2 RU (MS-6380 V2.0), AMD AthlonXP
> (Palomino core), onboard Promise RAID, hda=disk1, hdc=disk0,
> hde=DVD-Rom, hdg=CD-RW
Present configs/listings:
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df
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Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdc8 256996 106192 150804 42% /
/dev/hdc7 124427 4536 113467 4% /boot
/dev/hdc10 11783280 912916 10870364 8% /home
/dev/hdc1 20482840 13723956 6758884 68% /mnt/win_c
/dev/hdc5 20482840 18622932 1859908 91% /mnt/win_d
/dev/hdc6 1574336 11492 1562844 1% /mnt/win_e
/dev/hda1 2096160 98016 1998144 5% /mnt/win_f
/dev/hda5 2076312 1525656 550656 74% /mnt/win_g
/dev/hda7 2076312 1177376 898936 57% /mnt/win_h
/dev/hdc3 20360448 1023280 19337168 6% /mnt/win_q
/dev/hda8 1044156 33548 1010608 4% /tmp
/dev/hdc9 5333380 1071844 4261536 21% /usr
/dev/hda9 979896 93404 886492 10% /var
::::::::::::::
/etc/fstab
::::::::::::::
/dev/hdc8 / reiserfs notail 1 1
/dev/hdc7 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdc10 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hde /mnt/cdrom auto
user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/win_c ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,ro 0 0
/dev/hdc5 /mnt/win_d ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,ro 0 0
/dev/hdc6 /mnt/win_e ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,ro 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_f vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_g vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda7 /mnt/win_h vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hdc3 /mnt/win_q vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda8 /tmp reiserfs notail 1 2
/dev/hdc9 /usr reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda9 /var reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
::::::::::::::
/etc/mtab
::::::::::::::
/dev/hdc8 / reiserfs rw,notail 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
none /dev devfs rw 0 0
/dev/hdc7 /boot ext2 rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdc10 /home reiserfs rw 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/win_c ntfs ro,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0
/dev/hdc5 /mnt/win_d ntfs ro,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0
/dev/hdc6 /mnt/win_e ntfs ro,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_f vfat rw,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_g vfat rw,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda7 /mnt/win_h vfat rw,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hdc3 /mnt/win_q vfat rw,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda8 /tmp reiserfs rw,notail 0 0
/dev/hdc9 /usr reiserfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda9 /var reiserfs rw 0 0
::::::::::::::
/etc/lilo.conf
::::::::::::::
boot=/dev/hdc
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
default=WinXP
keytable=/boot/uk.klt
prompt
nowarn
password=muse06
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x80
disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81
other=/dev/hdc1
label=WinXP
table=/dev/hdc
other=/dev/hda1
label=DOS
table=/dev/hda
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hdc8
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="quiet devfs=mount hdf=none hdg=ide-scsi hdh=none"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux-noCDRW
root=/dev/hdc8
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="quiet devfs=mount hdg=none hdh=none"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux-nonfb
root=/dev/hdc8
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux-failsafe
root=/dev/hdc8
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe devfs=nomount"
read-only
::::::::::::::
/etc/modules.conf
::::::::::::::
probeall scsi_hostadapter usb-storage
alias sound-slot-1 snd-via82xx
above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss
alias eth0 8139too
alias sound-slot-0 snd-ice1712
above snd-ice1712 snd-pcm-oss
probeall usb-interface usb-ohci ehci-hcd usb-uhci
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Martin Lomas
martin@ml1.co.uk
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