Split the devices over two channels..........
Neither play well togather.
> hda: WDC AC418000D, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-140F, ATAPI CDROM drive
needs to be
hda: WDC AC418000D, ATA DISK drive
hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-140F, ATAPI CDROM drive
Almost a sure bet that WDC timings are not compatable with SAMSUNG and so
is the converse!!
Do the change and if it goes away, this would be expected.
If it stays, then "SAMSUNG" needs a work around.
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> I've noticed a nasty problem with CD on 2.2.x including latest 2.2.14. The
> problem manifests itself in corrupting every large file that is read from
> CD. Corruption is repeatable, but not happen always in the same place in
> the file - i.e., if I repeat the copy in small amount of time, it's the
> same place, but if I wait some time, unmount the CD and mount it back,
> etc., place of corruption can change.
>
> It doesn't seem to be hardware related bug, since if I downgrade to 2.2.5
> from Redhat 6.0 RPMs, problem disappears.
>
> The application that always triggers the bug is rpm - when it is run on
> large RPM from the CD, it says "unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad
> magic", but it isn't program-related too - copy to HD makes the same
> result (file is corrupted). No kernel messages or other errors are
> reported - kernel thinks the file is OK, but it isn't.
>
> The CD is SAMSUNG SC-140F.
> Kernel report on IDE:
> PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> hda: WDC AC418000D, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-140F, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> hda: WDC AC418000D, 17206MB w/1966kB Cache, CHS=2193/255/63, UDMA
> hdb: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
> Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
>
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> +972-3-6139665
>
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