[gentoo-user] Re: my CD breaks after mount command
* Jose A Carrasco (2003-06-20 12:27 +0200) I have just installed Gentoo Linux under a Pentium 3 machine. Everything has worked fine and as presented in the installation guide. After I have the base system running, I enter as root and mount the CD with the command mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom. At that moment the cd stops working. It seems to break and it is definitely broken. I have broken 3 CD readers this way! The CDs work until that moment since I install them and I am able to reboot the machine from them (and work this way) so I have discarded a harware problem since I measure good voltages for the power supply and the rest of the equipment woks ok. Could the Gentoo kernel with a bad configuration destroy my CD? Do you have hdparm settings[1] for your cdrom? I broke two drives last weekend with the safe performance-enhancing options[2] from the 1.4_rc4 Installation Instructions[3]. Thorsten [1] /etc/conf.d/hdparm [2] -d1 -A1 -m16 -u1 -a64 -M128 [3] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: my CD breaks after mount command
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:10:30 +0200 Thorsten Kampe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have hdparm settings[1] for your cdrom? I broke two drives last weekend with the safe performance-enhancing options[2] from the 1.4_rc4 Installation Instructions[3]. [2] -d1 -A1 -m16 -u1 -a64 -M128 Ouch! That's really too bad. But be aware that the -M option is considered experimental(man hdparm), and also that it isn't part of the safe hdparm settings in the install manual (at least not at this exact moment: # hdparm -d1 -A1 -m16 -u1 -a64 /dev/hdX Einar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
