Fedora 9.0.95 refuses to install *FALSE ALARM*

[Robert L Cochran]

For those people with older systems built before 1996, the CD drive may
not be able to read a 650 Mb CD. It would be expecting a 550 Mb CD. I've
had one case of this. Fixed it by installing a newer model, but still
old, Toshiba CD drive. And yes the new drive is used.

However you won't see this much if at all these days.

Bob


On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 20:19, Alan wrote:
> Wouldn't you know it...  It took a new install for the CD-ROM to flake.
> 
> I am amazed that it would install anything at all the way it was acting.
> 
> Installed a new drive and everything is working so far.
> 
> The hardware gods must be wanting another blood sacrifice.
> 
> On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 14:35, Alan wrote:
> > I have a P-III 750 with an i810 graphics card on the motherboard.
> > 
> > It hits Anaconda probing for devices and sits and spins.
> > 
> > 9.0.94 installs correctly, but later claims irq and dma problems on the
> > cd-rom drive. (The install had no problems.)  Turning off dma on the
> > cd-rom drive does not get rid of the dma error messages either.  (Which
> > is weird.)
> > 
> > Ideas?
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Bob Cochran
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
http://www.greenbeltcomputer.biz/