Re: [TCLUG:6165] FW: RH 6.0

[schewe@tcfreenet.org]

On 25 May, Barnholtz, Brian wrote:
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Barnholtz, Brian 
> Sent:	Monday, May 24, 1999 12:20 PM
> To:	'tclug@listserv.real-time.com'
> Subject:	RH 6.0
> 
> I just received my Red Hat 6.0 disc from Cheap Bytes.  When I go to
> install the disc, everything works until the rpm's are installed, then
> hdc looses its interrupt.  HDC is my cdrom.   While going through the
> consoles I noticed that the autoprobe for IDE drives has a 12x Atapi
> CDROM Driver loaded.  This is the new revised ver 2.54 Atapi Driver.  I
> have had no problem with the Red Hat 5.2 loading, just RH 6.0.  I was
> able to get it to work by re-installing RH 5.2 and adding a partition on
> my hdb4 and copy the RH 6.0 base and rpms to hdb4.  Then install via
> hard drive.  When I mount the cdrom under RH 6.0 it works for a couple
> of minutes then I get the error hdc lost its interrupt, and the system
> hangs.  I believe the problem is with the new revised atapi ide cdrom
> driver is not compatible with my cdrom. (???) .  Any Ideas.
> 
I've seen this with other hardware.  It's usually because something
else wants to use that interrupt too.
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Jon Schewe
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