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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, James Miller wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Sindi Keesan wrote:
> 
> > One of them (the faster) has been giving us odd error messages when we do
> > a 'find' with the CD-ROM drive mounted:
> > hda: status timeout: status - 0xd0 {Busy}
> > hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE
> > ide0: unexpected interrupt, status = 0x80, count 1
> > 6ide0:  reset:  success
> >
> > I hit the enter key to get back the prompt.
> > What does this all mean?  Is something wrong with the CD-ROM drive?
> > It copies/plays CDs okay.
> >
> Is hda the CD drive?  Sort of an odd setup, if it is (primary master IDE
> device being a CD).  Usually a hard drive is the primary master.  Here's a
> possibility: hda is a hard drive, and the CD drive is the slave on the
> same channel (hdb).  Your hard drive is going bad, so it's giving you
> error messages.  This causes the CD slaved on the same IDE channel to have
> problems as well.  Does that sound like a possibility?
> 
> James


hda is the 8G hard drive.  Master on the first IDE controller.
The CD-ROM drive is hdc. Master on the second IDE controller.
The CD/RW drive is hdd, slave on the second controller.
Someone said to put hard drive and CD-ROM drives on different controllers 
so that you could read from the CD to hard drive faster.  Perhaps we 
should put the two CD-ROM drives on different controllers if we will be 
copying between them.  hda = hard drive, hdb = CD/RW, hdc = CD-R ?


Perhaps the CD-ROM drive has nothing to do with it and when we search the
hard drive (with find) that is causing the problem. The hard drive appears
to be okay apart from this error message, at least the part not used by
linux.  A dir/s on the Windows partition never gives error messages. I
will experiment with and without CD drive mounted in linux.  Is there a
linux version of scandisk?

Do you happen to know how to set up DOS autoexec.bat and config.sys for a 
CD/RW drive (with aspi.sys)?