In regards to the CD glitch you had:
>>hdd: ATAPI reset complete
>> ATAPI device hdd:
>> Error: Unit attention -- (Sense key=0x06)
>> Power on, reset or bus device reset occurred
>>--
>> (asc=0x29, ascq=0x00)
>> hdd: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 {
>>DriveReady
>> SeekComplete Error }
>> hdd: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
>> ide0: reset: success
I got that error when I used an unsuccessfully burned
copy of Mandrake (Adaptec choked on the CD-R during
the table of contents writing phase, I've since been
thru 3 CD-R's in trying to copy). So you might wanna
check the CD surface for any kind of scratches or
particles...
Just a thought..
`Kumba
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Two more bugs to report:
>
> 1) By default, Mandrake attempts to turn on DMA for
> available IDE devices.
> Attempting to copy the contents of a CDROM to my
> hard drive, I encountered
> the following errors:
>
> hdd: timeout waiting for DMA
> hdd: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete DataRequest }
> hdd: DMA disabled
> hda: timeout waiting for DMA
> hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete DataRequest }
> hda: DMA disabled
>
> and then the entire machine locked up. The keyboard
> was frozen and I ended
> up "kicking the Big Red Button" on the machine.
>
> I modified my BIOS settings to disable DMA support
> for the interfaces and
> rebooted. Trying to make the copy, the same errors
> and lockup (and
> resolution occurred).
>
> Finally, I modified
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime to change the
> -d1 to
> -d0 in the hdparm line and rebooted the machine.
>
> After the reboot, I again attempted the copy only to
> be greeted with the
> same errors followed by:
>
> hdd: ATAPI reset complete
> ATAPI device hdd:
> Error: Unit attention -- (Sense key=0x06)
> Power on, reset or bus device reset occurred --
> (asc=0x29, ascq=0x00)
> hdd: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }
> hdd: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
> ide0: reset: success
>
> The machine did not lock up this time, but I'm a bit
> worried by the
> messages. This machine had NO PROBLEMS running
> Mandrake 6.0 and had no
> problems running 2.3.x kernels.
>
> Thinking that I'd simply bypass the bad judgement on
> Mandrake's part, I
> moved to compiling my own kernel. Once again, I'm
> hit with a bug:
>
> 2) Inability to compile a kernel. Attempting a
> 'make menuconfig' yields:
>
> gcc -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions
> -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mpentium -mcpu=pentium
> -march=pentium -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations
> -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2
> -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -DLOCALE
> -I/usr/include/ncurses -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>"
> -c lxdialog.c -o lxdialog.o
> cc1: Invalid option `preferred-stack-boundary=2'
> make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/linux-2.2.13/scripts/lxdialog'
> make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
>
>
> This leaves me with a couple questions:
>
> * RPM packaging is supposed to ensure that binary
> packages are reliably
> recreatable using the source package. If I can't
> even get the resulting
> source to build, how did you manage to compile the
> thing in the first
> place?
> * Where the hell is the quality testing?! I've only
> owned this
> distribution for two days and already I've tripped
> over three bugs that
> should not happen.
>
> TO THE MANDRAKE STAFF:
>
> I know that the second bug has already been reported
> to this list. I
> haven't seen a reponse from Mandrake concerning an
> updated package to fix
> the problem. Actually, I don't think I've even seen
> a response from anyone
> at Mandrake for any of the reported problems.
>
> I'm not a clueless, confused, newbie user. I'm not
> adverse to fixing these
> problems myself. However, I'd prefer the
> opportunity to shoot MYSELF in the
> foot prior to Mandrake grabbing the gun and doing it
> for me.
>
> Well? You got my money, how about giving me a
> workable product for it?
>
> Consider putting that on a bulletin board somewhere.
> You'd do well to take
> it to heart.
>
> --
> Steve Philp
> Network Administrator
> Advance Packaging Corporation
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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