Package: kernel-image-2.4.18-1-k7 Version: 2.4.18-13.1 Severity: normal My AMD 1.4GHz Athlon clone box has a no-name CD-ROM drive with two buttons on it. When the power is on but Linux is not yet running, the right button seems to open the tray, and the left button closes it.
When the system is running, the "setcd -i" command reports the tray is open when in fact it's closed. Pressing the right-hand button on the CD drive and the "eject" command both have the same effect: the tray is opened and *immediately* closed. This happens too fast to drop a CD into the tray before it closes. Now for the _really_ strange part. If I press the left button on the drive, and then press the right button, the tray opens and stays open -- for some variable period of time. Sometimes it's 20 or 30 seconds; sometimes its several minutes. Anyway, I can usually get a CD into or out of the tray this way before it closes again. "dmesg" reports: hdc: CD-ROM Drive/F5E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Because the CD drive appears to behave reasonably on its own, I think this is a software problem with the IDE driver -- but I am not a kernel person and not used to this stuff. Google has not revealed anything like this. Any ideas? -- A. T. Young -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Kernel Version: Linux aty786 2.4.18-1-k7 #1 Wed Apr 14 19:20:42 UTC 2004 i686 unknown Versions of the packages kernel-image-2.4.18-1-k7 depends on: ii fileutils 4.1-10 GNU file management utilities ii initrd-tools 0.1.32woody.3 Tools to generate an initrd image. ii modutils 2.4.15-1 Linux module utilities. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]