I've been having a problem for a while: when booting, haldaemon will fail, leaving me without CD/DVD and floppy drives available.
Has anyone else had this kind of problem? If so, can anyone suggest a solution?
Thanks for listening,
Dick
Dick Roth wrote:
I've been having a problem for a while: when booting, haldaemon will fail, leaving me without CD/DVD and floppy drives available.
Has anyone else had this kind of problem? If so, can anyone suggest a solution?
Thanks for listening,
Dick
some more information would be helpful what version of centos and hal any fail reports
Tosh wrote:
Dick Roth wrote:
I've been having a problem for a while: when booting, haldaemon will fail, leaving me without CD/DVD and floppy drives available.
Has anyone else had this kind of problem? If so, can anyone suggest a solution?
Thanks for listening,
Dick
some more information would be helpful what version of centos and hal any fail reports _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Sorry about that:
CentOS 5.2 (Final) hal-0.5.8.1-35.el5 Gigabyte P35-DS3R Motherboard
I went through messages.* and found no direct references to HAL, but did notice messages like:
Dec 6 20:02:40 c-75-69-199-70 kernel: hdf: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01). Trying to recover by ending request.
Both a WDC IDE hard drive and a Pioneer 112D CD/DVD Burner are on the only legacy IDE connector on the mobo, so I can't try a different IDE channel.
Hope this helps clarify things.
Dick
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Dick Roth raroth7@comcast.net wrote:
I've been having a problem for a while: when >booting, haldaemon will fail, leaving me without CD/DVD and floppy drives >available.
<snip>
Dec 6 20:02:40 c-75-69-199-70 kernel: hdf: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01). Trying to recover by ending request.
Both a WDC IDE hard drive and a Pioneer 112D >CD/DVD Burner are on the only legacy IDE connector on the mobo, so I can't try a >different IDE channel.
In my previous reply, I forgot to suggest that you reseat the cable at both ends. Or, try another cable. If you are lucky, the problem will go away and has nothing to do with your motherboard. Or, if it does, possibly you can stick in a PCI board with an EIDE controller and bypass the motherboard.
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Dick Roth raroth7@comcast.net wrote:
I've been having a problem for a while: when booting, >haldaemon will > fail, leaving me without CD/DVD and >floppy drives available.
Has anyone else had this kind of problem? If so, can >anyone suggest a > solution?
Your problem may not be with HAL. I have had similar, intermittent problems, recently, with various symptoms, including that K3b could not find my CD-RW drive or media in it. I just finished writing to CD-R media with K3b with that CD-RW drive. In the case of my Desktop, I now know that the motherboard is damaged. Since you wrote that you have a problem with more than one piece of HW, I hope in your case it isn't the motherboard. You can run Diagnostics on the HW, which I did last Sunday, with the Dell Diagnostics for this box, but my HW got a clean bill of health, since it is intermittent. GL!
Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Dick Roth raroth7@comcast.net wrote:
I've been having a problem for a while: when booting, >haldaemon will > fail, leaving me without CD/DVD and >floppy drives available.
Has anyone else had this kind of problem? If so, can >anyone suggest a > solution?
Your problem may not be with HAL. I have had similar, intermittent problems, recently, with various symptoms, including that K3b could not find my CD-RW drive or media in it. I just finished writing to CD-R media with K3b with that CD-RW drive. In the case of my Desktop, I now know that the motherboard is damaged. Since you wrote that you have a problem with more than one piece of HW, I hope in your case it isn't the motherboard. You can run Diagnostics on the HW, which I did last Sunday, with the Dell Diagnostics for this box, but my HW got a clean bill of health, since it is intermittent. GL! _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Thanks for the suggestions, Lanny. I opened my box and reseated my IDE connectors...just in case. Then I rebooted twice and came up roses each time. Let's hope this is a trend.
Happy Holidays to one and all!
Dick
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Dick Roth <snip>
I've been having a problem for a while: when booting, >haldaemon will > fail, leaving me without CD/DVD and >floppy drives available.
Has anyone else had this kind of problem? If so, can >anyone suggest a > solution?
<snip>
Thanks for the suggestions, Lanny. I opened my box >and reseated my IDE connectors...just in case. Then I rebooted twice and >came up roses each time. Let's hope this is a trend.
I hope that cures the problem in your box, permanently!
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