[wplug] disappearing cdrom on a laptop.

John S. Post jpost at cvzoom.net
Mon Jul 8 18:56:36 EDT 2002


John,

I am also running redhat 7.3 on a laptop.

To answer your first question... 

I conclude my cdrom is an ide device 
because when I type the command:

cat /proc/ide/ide0/hdb/driver 

I get the following response:

ide-cdrom version 4.59

- John S. Post

On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 09:59, harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu wrote:
> Sometime in July Evan DiBiase assaulted keyboard and produced...
> 
> |I'm not entirely sure what it could be (others with more laptop 
> |experience probably do), but it would be helpful to see what sort of 
> |output the "dmesg" command is giving you on the laptop. Could you send 
> |it to the list?
> 
> 
> that's probably a good idea. here it is:
> <dmesg>
> Linux version 2.4.18-3 (bhcompile at daffy.perf.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)) #1 Thu Apr 18 07:37:53 EDT 2002
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009e000 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 000000000009e000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000000c0000 - 00000000000d4000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000176e0000 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000176e0000 - 00000000176f0000 (ACPI data)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000176f0000 - 0000000017700000 (ACPI NVS)
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000017700000 - 0000000017780000 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000017780000 - 0000000018000000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000ff800000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> On node 0 totalpages: 96128
> zone(0): 4096 pages.
> zone(1): 92032 pages.
> zone(2): 0 pages.
> Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hda3
> Initializing CPU#0
> Detected 531.571 MHz processor.
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop... 1061.68 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 376060k/384512k available (1119k kernel code, 7932k reserved, 775k data, 280k init, 0k highmem)
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
> Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
> CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
> CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
> CPU: L2 cache: 512K
> CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
> Intel machine check architecture supported.
> Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
> CPU:     After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU:             Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU       933MHz stepping 01
> Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
> Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au)
> mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9aa, last bus=4
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent
> PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/248c] at 00:1f.0
> PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.1
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.2
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:03.1
> PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 02:03.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:02.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1d.0
> isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
> isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> Initializing RT netlink socket
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
> Starting kswapd
> VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
> pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
> Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1f.6
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1f.3
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1f.5
> Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
> block: 720 slots per queue, batch=180
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9
> PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available because of resource collisions
> PIIX4: (ide_setup_pci_device:) Could not enable device.
> hda: TOSHIBA MK2018GAP, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> hda: 39070080 sectors (20004 MB), CHS=2432/255/63
> ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
> Partition check:
>  hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
> ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
> md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
> md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
> md: autorun ...
> md: ... autorun DONE.
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
> Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> Freeing initrd memory: 118k freed
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> Journalled Block Device driver loaded
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 280k freed
> Adding Swap: 393552k swap-space (priority -1)
> usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
> usb.c: registered new driver hub
> usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 07:43:07 Apr 18 2002
> usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
> PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1d.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:02.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:03.0
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.0 to 64
> usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x8c80, IRQ 10
> usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
> usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
> hub.c: USB hub found
> hub.c: 2 ports detected
> PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1d.1
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:05.0
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.1 to 64
> usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x8ca0, IRQ 11
> usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
> usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
> hub.c: USB hub found
> hub.c: 2 ports detected
> PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1d.2
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.1
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:03.1
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.2 to 64
> usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x8cc0, IRQ 11
> usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
> usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
> hub.c: USB hub found
> hub.c: 2 ports detected
> usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
> EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ide0(3,6), internal journal
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
> parport0: irq 7 detected
> PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:05.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.1
> 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
> 02:05.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xa000. Vers LK1.1.16
> Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
>   options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
> PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 02:03.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:02.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1d.0
> PCI: Enabling device 02:07.0 (0000 -> 0002)
> PCI: Assigned IRQ 10 for device 02:07.0
> Yenta IRQ list 02b8, PCI irq10
> Socket status: 30000006
> Yenta IRQ list 0000, PCI irq10
> Socket status: 30000010
> cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
> cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7
> cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
> cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
> hermes.c: 16 Jan 2002 David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> orinoco.c 0.09b (David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
> orinoco_cs.c 0.09b (David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
> eth1: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:000a
> eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.10
> eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
> eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
> eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
> eth1: MAC address 00:02:2D:5B:D0:D9
> eth1: Station name "HERMES I"
> eth1: ready
> eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 10, io 0x0100-0x013f
> Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
> agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 313M
> agpgart: Detected an Intel 830M Chipset.
> agpgart: detected 8192K stolen memory.
> agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000
> [drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel i810 @ 0xe8000000 128MB
> [drm] Initialized i830 1.2.0 20011004 on minor 0
> mtrr: base(0xe8000000) is not aligned on a size(0x180000) boundary
> 
> </dmesg>
> 
> 
> if there is any more useful info you need let me know.
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