[plug] Silly CDrom question.

[The Thought Assassin]

On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote:
> > > When I place a data cd in the drive bay it will spit it back out at me :(
> > You mean _before_ you try to mount it?
> Yup ...
> > > If I try to mount that CD "mount -o,ro -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom" it
> > > spits back at me:
> > > device not ready or tray open about 60 time then exits.
> > Is the tray in or out or being pulled in or being ejected at this time?
> The tray is closed before I type the mount command.  Then once it has printed 
> about 30 "device not ready or tray open"'s it opens and closes the tray.
OK, then the mounting errors are just a symptom of the CD player's 
rejection of the disc. Which means it is a problem with the ide CD driver
which seems to be leaving the drive in a state where it will not accept
the CD.
However:
> Yes it is definatly a nomal ATAPI cdrom.  It is plugged into the seconadry
> controler and jumpered to slave.  (I Should have said this before BUT it works
> from DOS if I boot from a floppy and use sbide.sys and mscdex.exe)
DOS appears to be switching the drive into the right state.
Do you know how to use loadlin? You may want to boot from the floppy, run
the dos drivers, then boot to linux with loadlin. There is a strong
possibility this might leave the CD player in the correct state.
Basically you need loadlin.exe and a kernel image on your floppy. You can
probably find loadlin on your distribution CD. In fact, a lot of distro
CDs have an install script for DOS, so can perhaps just run that and see
if it finds the CD then.

> Thanks for the help ... I'm no expert BUT it doesn't seem like a hardware
> conflict.
I'm with you on that one, but the mantra still holds :)

-Greg