On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 15:13, alan wrote: > Well, I finally got Fedora Core 2 installed on this little Vaio. Almost > the most painful install on this little beast yet. (One install aborted > about 3/4 of the way through. Not to mention the 12+gig I had to backup > over a slow network...) > > When I try and use the PCMCIA CD-ROM, I get the following errors on the > syslog: > > Jun 3 23:46:44 localhost cardmgr[1460]: socket 0: Ninja ATA > Jun 3 23:46:45 localhost cardmgr[1460]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: > No such device > Jun 3 23:46:45 localhost kernel: ide-cs: GetNextTuple: No more items > > The cd-rom drive does not come up. > > I remember having to do the similar command line hack to get the drive > working for Redhat 9 and Fedora Core 1. > > The "pci=off ide1=0x180,0x386" was not needed for Redhat 7.2 or 7.3. > Anything before Redhat 8 never needed the pci=off for the cd-rom drive to > work. (Most of the time all you needed was "ide1=0x180".) I have used > this laptop with about every version of Redhat since about 6.0 or so. > > I can go back and test which work and which do not sometime this weekend. > (It just takes time and the "big book of Linux install discs".) > > I will also test to see if the port expanded still cores the system. > > BTW, the change in working v.s. non-working seemed to be just after > kernel version 2.4.18 or so. It is even worse than that. If I turn off pci I can no longer access usb, firewire or the built in crappy winmodem. (The winmodem is no big loss, but usb is.) For now, whenever I need to use the cd-rom, I have to reboot the machine and use those kernel options. I will test to see if it is anything that uses ide-cs or just the cdrom. (I have a pcmcia to flash adapter that uses that module, if I remember right.) -- Alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
