On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:22:19AM -1000, HPA Guest 1 wrote:
> >Vorpahl, Jason Stephen wrote:
<large snippage>
> I think there is something else going on here, because I have run
> into the same problem and have done some additional investigations.
> I think there is some incompatibility between the cd-rom drivers in
> RH 9 and certain cd-rom drives.
A plausible theory...
> Here's what I did and found out:
> I installed RH 9 onto a computer that had been running RH 7.3. I did
> a complete fresh install, erasing and partitioning the hard drive.
> RH 9 install gives you a chance to "check" your CDs before the
> installation process begins. All three CDs checked out fine and
> there were no problems performing the installation. After the
> installation was done and the computer re-booted, I tried to mount
> one of the CDs to install some additional rpm packages. I could not
> get the cd to mount, as root:
>
> # mount /dev/cdrom
>
> or even
>
> # mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt /cdrom
I hope you meant "/mnt/cdrom", not "/mnt /cdrom"
<snip>
> So, I took my 3 RH 7.3 CDs and installed RH 7.3 onto the "problem"
> computer and lo and behold I can mount all kinds of CDs, the 3 7.3
> CDs and the 3 RH 9 CDs. What's going on here? CD-ROM drive works
> fine and mounts CDs with RH 7.3, with RH 9, installs ok, but can't
> mount CDs. I confirmed this again, by installing RH 9 back on to the
> machine and again I can't mount CDs.
My (admittedly unresearched theory):
A few years ago someone gave me a CDROM drive (for use in a giveaway
system I was buildng) that worked fine on my (then) RH 4.x box, but
didn't work at all in Windows 95.
After considerably digging, I found that it was conformant with an older
version of the ATAPI standard, and that Win95 wanted at least one dot-rev
higher than it supported.
Is it possible you've encountered a similar situation, where the ATAPI
drivers in the newer kernel no longer support a drive that only provides
an older ATAPI standard capability?
Also, what do you see in "dmesg | less" regarding ide, ATAPI, or CDROM
when the "bad" drive is in the system?
have you read the documentation in /usr/src/linux*/Documentation/ide.txt?
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