Your 24X Mitsumi IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drive (Mfg. date - circa 1997) is designed to read CD-Rs, BUT is limited to a max storage capacity of 630 MBs in Mode 2 (standard read mode). You may not be able to read the Install CD for MDK 9 (~690+ MBs) properly or at all.
Is this burn of MDK 9 from the very same burner you used to make your MDK 8.2 CDs? Is your CD-RW capable of burning 700 MB CD-Rs? Have you checked disc number one for complete readability? It sounds like the size of the first CD of MDK 9 is your problem. Either your burner cannot accommodate beyond 650 MBs and/or your CD-ROM drive cannot read beyond that point (as your specs suggest!) Be aware that using 'over-burning' (Nero offers this feature) may damage your CD-RW drive if it cannot handle traversing that far inward. BTW: If you lack the specs on your CD-ROM drive, they are here: http://support.tulip.com/TulipExchange/Public/nlhe0016.nsf/332a0dc0f76dd553412567370035f4a2/3055793e2171be614125654c00493b53?OpenDocument (careful! one very long URL!) Shane has been able to trick some CD-ROM drives into reading beyond their mfg. capacity. However, if I understand him correctly, the drives at least allowed the install to get to the point of picking out the packages (where you could choose to nix those that were in the nether regions of your CD-R.) If you aren't able to get the installation to recognize the drive, it would seem this is a moot technique. Some things to consider in your hardware setup of drives and CD-ROMs for the future: 1. It would be best for your setup if you slaved the two drives together on the primary IDE channel and made the CD-ROM drive the master on the second IDE channel. It's really not best for the performance of the drive to have a CD-ROM on the same channel and can cause problems. 2. Use the largest (and usually the fastest because of size) drive as the master, the other as the slave. Make sure that you have your jumpers set correctly, per the drive mfg.'s specs. 3. Be aware that slaving one mfg.'s drive to another is always a crap-shoot. It either works very well, works well most of the time, or in some cases, just won't slave to the master. Some Conners, Maxtor's and Seagates will not mate up to each other (speaking specifically of older, smaller IDEs, now...) and I have seen some that will not even mate up to themselves (that is, the same mfg.!) Does any of this help? T Brian Meadows wrote: > Hi all, > > Baffled by this one, anyone got any ideas? > > I'm trying to upgrade a box currently running Mandrake 8.2 > (Pentium 133, 64 MB RAM, one 6.4GB hard drive as the primary > master, a Mitsumi FX240S as the primary slave, and a second 2GB > hard drive as the secondary master). Insert the 9.0 disk 1, with > the PC set to boot from CD-ROM of course, I get the usual POST > and BIOS messages, then the following > > ISOLINUX 1.76 Mandrake Linux isolinux > Loading spec packet failed, trying to wing it > isolinux: Failed to locate CD-ROM drive: boot failed > > And that's it - the PC hangs, and a hard reboot is the only way > out. > > Yes, the downloaded images did give correct MD5 sums before I > burned them to CD. > > Anyone have any ideas? Obviously the system still knows it has > the CD-ROM there (at least initially), as it would otherwise drop > me into GRUB and my 8.2 startup. I can't believe Mandrake have > removed support for my particular CD-ROM from V9.0. > > Thanks, > > Brian. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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