* Jose A Carrasco (2003-06-20 12:27 +0200) > I have just installed Gentoo Linux under a Pentium 3 machine. Everything has > worked fine and as presented in the installation guide. > After I have the base system running, I enter as root and mount the CD with > the command mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom. At that moment the cd stops > working. It seems to break and it is definitely broken.
> I have broken 3 CD readers this way!!!!! The CDs work until that moment > since I install them and I am able to reboot the machine from them (and work > this way) so I have discarded a harware problem since I measure good > voltages for the power supply and the rest of the equipment woks ok. > Could the Gentoo kernel with a bad configuration destroy my CD? Do you have hdparm settings[1] for your cdrom? I broke two drives last weekend with the "safe performance-enhancing options"[2] from the "1.4_rc4 Installation Instructions"[3]. Thorsten [1] /etc/conf.d/hdparm [2] -d1 -A1 -m16 -u1 -a64 -M128 [3] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
