Hello,
I followed the instructions given by the list, but
was still unable to access my IDE ATAPI cdrom.
The cdrom is configured as secondary master. There
is no file /proc/sys/dev/cdrom . Below, i have sent a
screenshot of my dmesg (appropriate part only)
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K
size
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x10a0-0x10a7, BIOS settings:
hda:pio, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x10a8-0x10af, BIOS settings:
hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: ST34310A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: ST34310A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: ST34310A, 4111MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=524/255/63
hdb: ST34310A, 4111MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=524/255/63
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum
routines
pII_mmx : 776.478 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 814.959 MB/sec
8regs : 599.694 MB/sec
32regs : 336.423 MB/sec
using fastest function: p5_mmx (814.959 MB/sec)
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 >
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed
Adding Swap: 265032k swap-space (priority -1)
via-rhine.c:v1.01 2/27/99 Written by Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/via-rhine.html
eth0: VIA VT3043 Rhine at 0x1000, 00:80:c8:03:91:66,
IRQ 11.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x782d
advertising 05e1 Link 0000.
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT
16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
[me=0xb9,cs=15456,#f=240,fs=47783,fl=17664,ds=6711975,de=191,data=6712044,se=64638,ts=2122659467,ls=35708,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
Transaction block size = 512
VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 03:40.
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT
16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
[me=0xf8,cs=0,#f=0,fs=900,fl=145520,ds=900,de=0,data=900,se=39936,ts=975962462,ls=5120,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
Transaction block size = 512
VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 03:00.
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT
16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
[me=0xf8,cs=0,#f=0,fs=900,fl=145520,ds=900,de=0,data=900,se=39936,ts=975962462,ls=5120,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
Transaction block size = 512
VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 03:00.
My fstab file is
/dev/hdb1 / ext2
defaults 1 1
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660
user,exec,dev,suid,ro,gid=500,owner 0 0
/dev/hdb5 swap swap
defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2
noauto,owner 0 0
none /proc proc
defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts
gid=5,mode=620 0 0
Sorry for sending such a big mail. Please help
Madhesh
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