On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 20:47 +0200, Horace Dynamite wrote: > On 22 July 2011 18:27, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:54:00 +0100, Horace Dynamite wrote: > > > >> On 22 July 2011 16:43, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Uff, have you tried with another IDE cable? Those seem hardware errors. > >> > >> I installed the Debian system using this optical drive, so I think this > >> proves that my optical drive and IDE cable are working properly, for, it > >> was only three days ago that I installed Debian. Is that true? > > > > Well, the unit can be in its finals days and the fact you could install > > from it with no apparent/visible errors is not a proof of its health... > > BTW, how old is it? > > 2 years old. I've just booted into a Ubuntu Live CD, which I believe > implies the electronics are working. > > > Then you can re-sit the current one, just in case it has been slightly > > moved or became loose. > > I took it out, re-sat, booted the LiveCD again, it worked. Yet I still > get these hardware errors. > > Thanks for your time, > > Horace. > >
How is your drive reported by the kernel. As SCSI/ATA or IDE ? On my machine, the kernel boots as SCSI/ATA with IDE devices. I rebuilt my custom kernel, where it can boot as E-IDE with IDE devices. On linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 - debian default kernel tcat@lynx:~$ dmesg | grep scsi [ 2.299497] scsi0 : pata_via [ 2.300477] scsi1 : pata_via [ 2.698385] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM SONY CD-RW CRX160E 1.0e PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 2.803991] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 On my custom ide kernel, linux-image-2.6.32-10.00.Custom tcat@lynx:~$ dmesg | grep hdc [ 3.880272] hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX160E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive [ 4.720357] hdc: host max PIO5 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4 [ 4.725161] hdc: UDMA/33 mode selected [ 5.142772] ide-cd: hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 4096kB Cache Just curious, not sure if I can help. I am struggling with a lot of new stuff in Squeeze. Regards -- Tomas Kral <thomas.k...@email.cz> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1311535696.2620.3.camel@lynx.localhost.localdomain