Kernel Upgrade

[Alma J Wetzker]

I am not sure which is which.  I have a DVD player and a CD-RW on the same 
secondary IDE cable (in that order so I suspect /dev/hdc)  I don't know what 
this means.  What am I looking at?

# hdparm /dev/hdc

/dev/hdc:
  HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Input/output error
  I/O support  =  1 (32-bit)
  unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
  using_dma    =  1 (on)
  keepsettings =  0 (off)
  HDIO_GET_NOWERR failed: Input/output error
  readonly     =  0 (off)
  BLKRAGET failed: Input/output error
  HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument


# hdparm /dev/hdd

/dev/hdd:
  HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Input/output error
  I/O support  =  1 (32-bit)
  unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
  using_dma    =  1 (on)
  keepsettings =  0 (off)
  HDIO_GET_NOWERR failed: Input/output error
  readonly     =  0 (off)
  BLKRAGET failed: Input/output error
  HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument

     -- Alma

"Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> Sun, 23 Nov 2003 13:15:43 -0800
> On 11/23/03 11:54, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> 
>> "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> Sat, 22 Nov 2003 19:34:25 -0800
>>
>>> On 11/22/03 16:28, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am still using a Caldera OL WS 3.1.1 as my main system.  (I like 
>>>> it.)  I am thinking it is time to update from the 2.4.13 kernel and 
>>>> hoping it will solve the stalls when I watch DVD's.  I ran through 
>>>> the SxS for 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Define 'stalls'.  This could be solved with hdparm.  On the other 
>>> hand it could be a hardware problem that is unrelated to the OS.
>>>
>> The picture and sound freeze for a few seconds and then jump ahead so 
>> we miss bits of dialog and action.  As this happens quite frequently 
>> it gets anoying fast.
>>
>> What would I look at with hdparm?  (I just had a thought about upping 
>> the priority of Xine...)
> 
> 
> Have you used hdparm at all in the past?  If so, then its the same basic 
> process.  If not, then as root, run hdparm against your DVD block device 
> (/dev/hdc or whatever), and report the output back here.