been working with few people offlist to try to get my cd-rw drive to work, but
i thought i'd post it back to the list to try to see if anyone else has
ideas.
cd-rw drive was origonally a supermount, it's been changed to automount.
we've modified fstab.
i've tried kiwkdisc.
none of it matters, because when i go to access a cd in my drive, after about
30 seconds, the caps lock and scroll lock lights on the keyboard start
flashing and the computer completely locks up. the only way to get out of it
is to hit the restart button on the case. i've had more hard crashes in
trying to get this working than i can count at this point. so far i've even
gotten an error from Noatun media player (which was running during one hard
crash) that it had a crash (but didn't tell me what it was) and even got an
error earlier that KDE had some type of crash (didn't say why, just said it
had a crash). so obviously things are NOT working right over here. keep in
mind to anyone that can help, i'm a SUPER NEWBIE, so saying "just change this
to this" has to be a little bit more specific, if you know what i mean (it's
my first time....running command lines, that is!). when it comes to
computers i'm a very slow learner, the harder i try the worse it gets. my cd
drive is listed as compatible hardware....because i know that was going to be
the first question anyone asked.
hardware: Asus KV7-RM, AMD 950, 768mb ram, 20g MDT and 100g MDT hard drives,
Nvidia video card, soundblaster 16PCI sound card, sony floppy drive, Phillips
CD-RW drive....so it's all modern hardware, nothing ancient, except maybe the
floppy drive, which i know is probably 5 years old.
running Mandrake 9.1
also running windows 98, and the cd drive is fully functional over there
here's my fstab:
/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,sync,unhide,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,user,nodev
0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_e vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb7 /mnt/win_f vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb8 /mnt/win_g vfat defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb9 swap swap defaults 0 0
here's my lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
default="linux"
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux-nonfb"
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label="windows"
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/fd0
label="floppy"
unsafe
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.22mdk
label="2421-22"
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.22mdk.img
append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
vga=788
read-only
I know a lot of this is trial and error, but i'm praying someone can hit the
nail on the head and get this one on the first try. i'm starting to get a
little worried here because i've had so many hard crashes it's not even funny
anymore. we also tried installing a new kernel
kernel-2.4.21.0.22mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
and that didn't work. btw, anyone have any idea how much damage i could've
done to the system so far with all the hard crashes i've had?
thanks to anyone that can help!
Mike
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