[NCLUG] cd writer

[James DeWitt]

Hi Daniel,

Sorry I don't have any specific suggestions, but this site:

http://tuxmobil.org/dell.html

has many listings of howto pages by people with 5150's.
Some of them seem to be having success with the cd writer.

JD

On Tuesday 25 November 2003 11:45 am, Daniel Miles wrote:
> When it crashes it prints to the screen:
> modproSCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
> behda: attached ide-scsi driver.
> scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
> scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 0,
> lun 0 0x12 00 00 00 ff 00
>
> ....maybe that helps somebody?
>
> On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 11:35, Daniel Miles wrote:
> > Thanks for the attempt, but it didn't work. I recompiled the kernel with
> > ide-cd as a module instead of simply being built straight in... I booted
> > the system with append="hda=ide-scsi" in my lilo.conf file, unloaded
> > ide-cd and loaded ide-scsi. The result was the same, total system
> > freeze.
> >
> > On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 15:06, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
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> > > >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Miles <milesd at cs.colostate.edu> writes:
> > >
> > > Daniel> I have a Dell Inspiron 5100 notebook with a cd writer in
> > > Daniel> it. The writer, for some strange reason, is on /dev/hda... So,
> > > Daniel> in my lilo.conf file, I have append="hda=ide-scsi".
> > >
> > > Daniel> I have the ide-scsi driver compiled as a module but when I
> > > Daniel> insert that module, the system freezes and I have to hold down
> > > Daniel> the power button for 5 seconds to turn it off... When I
> > > Daniel> *don't* pass that info the the kernel and I just use the
> > > Daniel> device as an ide device, it works fine (but not as a
> > > Daniel> burner). This is a bummer because I'd really like to use the
> > > Daniel> burner.
> > >
> > > Daniel> There are no error logs that I can find (though I'm hardly an
> > > Daniel> expert at finding error logs if you think there might be
> > > Daniel> something somewhere) and the system just hangs.
> > >
> > > Daniel> This happens on 2.2.19, 2.4.21 and 2.4.22 and it seems to
> > > Daniel> happen regaurdless of weather or not I compile the ide-scsi
> > > Daniel> driver as a module or not.
> > >
> > > Did you build 'ide-cd' as a module?
> > > You can't have both ide-cd and ide-scsi at the same time.
> > > It sounds like you might need to make ide-cd a module so it can be
> > > unloaded before you load the ide-scsi one.
> > >
> > > Daniel> The strange thing about it was that it worked on 2.2.19 when I
> > > Daniel> installed the (debian) system but it does not work now, even
> > > Daniel> though I have made no changes to that kernel.
> > >
> > > Try unloading ide-cd?
> > >
> > > Daniel> Ok, that's all the information I can think to suppply. Thanks
> > > Daniel> for giving this a shot. :)
> > >
> > > Hope that helps...
> > >
> > > kevin
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