Pentium I - Mandrake & COL 3.1.1

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My guess is perhaps DMA being turned on/off, or someother hdparm related 
setting that isn't getting along with your ancient IDE controller.

Run:
hdparm /dev/scd0

and see what the settings are.

On 01/09/03 04:13, Bob Hemus wrote:
> My computer is an older(?) Gateway P5 166 Mhz Intel processor it's a P 
> I.  The CDROM is a Ricoh RW.  It works with Windoze and eD2., i
> 
> A couple of months ago I bought Mandrake 8.2.  Upon 1st installation it 
> bombed, couldn't pick packages.  I went to their site and found there 
> was a problem with M 8.2 and some P I's.  There was a patch.  I 
> installed it with the patch and everything seemed OK after I fixed the 
> plug&play modem.
> 
> I also burned 2 CD's of COL 3.1.1 at my kids home in Rene 'cause they 
> have DSL and it took only 10 hours, not 2 weeks at home.  When I 
> installed this on another partition it, too, seemed to work OK.
> 
> Now my problems.  The Mandrake and the 3.1.1 freeze up when I try to use 
> the CDROM RW.  The CDROM works fine on eD2.4,  evens burns CD's.
> And on the Mandrake partition the desktop icon won't start the floppy.
> 
> Here is the /etc/fstab of the Mandrake
> 
> /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> /dev/scd0    /mnt/cdrom    iso9660 
> iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev    0 0
> /dev/fd0    /mnt/floppy    vfat 
> iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,nosuid,user,noauto,nodev,codepage=850,unhide    
> 0 0
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> The one for COL 3.1.1
> 
> devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5, mode=620  0  0
> /proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom oso9660 ro, user, noauto, exec  0  0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto defaults, user, noauto  0  0
> /dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults  1  3
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat ro,  0  0
> /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 ext2 defaults  0  0
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> The one foe eD2.4
> 
> /dev/hdb3 / ext2 rw 0  0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts rw, gid=5,mode=620 0  0
> /proc /proc proc rw 0 0
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat ro 0  0
> /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 ext2 rw 0  0
> hemus: (pid570) /auto nfs 
> intr,rw,port=1023,timeo=8,retrans=110,indirect,map=/etc/am.d/localdev,dev-00000003 
> 0  0
> 
> 
> Is the problem a software problem?  Something wrong with the installed 
> default fstab's.  They are all different though similar?  What if I 
> opied the eD2.4 fstab, corrected for the working partition to the 
> Mandrake and 3.1.1 partitions?  Any/all help will be greatly appreciated.
> Bob
> :-\  The smiley face works.

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