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CD writer does not detect the presence of a CD-ROM
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Buy new machine, or just pieces? Last week I decided to replace my internal server (inside the lan) with a 'new' machine. So from a P2 350 Mhz I bumped to a P3 800 Mhz. Right now the 'old' machine is resting under my desk. And I ask myself what to do with it. Sometimes I need a machine to screw up, or to test screw up or potential screw ups, and sometimes I need a machine to act as guinea pig. So I'm inclined to keep it. But is still too old and has some... other problems. Now, I could do two things: 1. buy a complete new machine for approx 500 euro 2. buy a new motherboard, processor, memory, video card and a new power adapter (since the old one is not nearly powerfull enough) and build the machine myself. Now, I don't think that buying the parts and then put it togheter would be a big problem, but I wonder if I'm going to save something out of the old machine. Something but the case I mean... Given the fact that I've already planned to upgrade the hard disk from a puny 8 Gb to a tasty 80 Gb... what would you do in this case? Davide -- Microsoft seems to have gotten a lot of mileage out of the C2 rating for NT with no network connection. I wonder if a B3 rating for Linux with no power cord might be of value. - 2. Bizarre lockup
This one has me stumped. I have an older (1998) vintage computer that I set up as a movie viewer for my kids. Basically, this machine runs X, then galeon, then mplayer via the mplayerplug-in. A similar setup has run flawlessly for a year on another machine. The machine is a 1050 MHz Athlon, 256 MB ram, a 60 GB hard disk, running FC2. On this particular machine, though, every so often the machine locks up in a most bizarre way. It repeats the last 1 or 2 seconds of the video being watched forever, and becomes completely non-responsive in every other way. Keyboard is dead, any ssh sessions become non-responsive, etc. The only way to get it to recover is to hit the reset button. It behaves much the same way as a damaged CD - simply repeats the last second of sound and video over and over. "umblah ~umblah ~umblah" and so on. There is nothing in the log files. The videos are on an NFS-mounted partition, but are cached to the local drive before being played. Any ideas? I'm pretty well stumped. I don't mind screwing around with this machine, but I don't want to spend money on it.... --Kamus -- o | o__ >[] | A roadie who doesn't ride a mountain bike has no soul. ,>/'_ /\ | But then a mountain biker who doesn't ride a road bike has no legs... (_)\(_) \ \ | -Doug Taylor, alt.mountain-bike - 3. Changing Linux-box hardware
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Re: CD writer does not detect the presence of a CD-ROM
by mru » Tue, 08 Jul 2003 19:58:42 GMT
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Hello Everyone, We had an IBM Netfinity 5000 laying around in the data center, and now I plan to make something useful out of it. I tried to install FreeBSD 6.2R on it last weekend when I came accross an issue with the built-in CD-ROM drive. FreeBSD 6.2R disc#1 is placed in the CD-ROM drive and it boots up nicely to the first curses screen of sysinstall. However, the CD-ROM device is not detected (no trace of it in dmesg), therefore I cannot continue the installation from CD-ROM. I also tried hooking up different other optical drives, tried another (proven) IDE cable, played around with device jumpers (master, slave, cable select) but I ended up with the same (or worse) result. For some reason, the otherwise perfectly working CD-ROM is not detected by FreeBSD 6.2R. And it is not detected by my Frenzy CD either, which is FreeBSD 6.1 based (AFAIK). I also tried a debian-based Linux distro (uhulinux.hu) install CD, and that boots up perfectly fine and recognizes the device (it shows up in dmesg). An IBM PC-DOS boot floppy with a generic IDE CD driver also recognizes the device. A few facts about this machine: This Netfinity 5000 has only one IDE connector on the motherboard (although FreeBSD dmesg shows ata0 and ata1, so I guess the integrated chipset itself provides 2 ATA channels). There is also a floppy connector on the motherboard and a 2 channel adaptec ultra-wide controller is integrated which has channel A hardwired to an external connector on the back-panel and channel B hardwired to an internal scsi connector right next to the floppy and single ide connector. The only one ide connector has the plain old 40-wire gray ribbon cable attached, and the connector socket itself has all the pins so the new cables where one pinhole is factory-filled cannot be connected. The original CD-ROM device was set to master, and it is detected by BIOS, can be booted of from, but is not recognized by FreeBSD. If the device is set to slave or cable select, even the BIOS doesn't detect it. Many other (old) CD-ROM devices behave exactly the same way here. Modern DVD devices are not detected by BIOS at all, not even as master. If you have any idea how I could get the CD-ROM drive detected by FreeBSD, please let me know! It is not an urgent issue as I am able to install FreeBSD on the server by booting from the release CD and then using FTP instead of CD/DVD, or I can boot AND install form an external SCSI CD-ROM too. So it is not the need for help getting FreeBSD installed, it is the need for help getting a good CD-ROM device recognized by the system. Regards, Keve -- if you need to reply directly: keve(at)mail(dot)poliod(dot)hu
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