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From: "Joel Soete" <soete.joel@tiscali.be>
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Linux on HP
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Hi Grant,

>>-- Original Message --
>>Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:34:16 -0700
>>From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
>>To: Joel Soete <soete.joel@tiscali.be>
>>Cc: Damian Muchli?ski <mudamian@poczta.onet.pl>,
>>	parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
>>Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Linux on HP
>>
>>
>>On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 05:13:22PM +0000, Joel Soete wrote:
>> Not me, it is the same pb on my b2k:
>> (see logs in the src thread)
>> "[...]
>> NS87415: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 70
>> NS87415: chipset revision 3
>> NS87415: 100% native mode on irq 103
>>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0x0a00-0x0a07, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
>>     ide1: BM-DMA at 0x0a08-0x0a0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
>> hda: HL-DT-ST GCE-8481B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
>> ide0 at 0xf00-0xf07,0xe02 on
>> hda: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
>> [...]"
>> 
>> The question is: is it enough to unplug the ide cable of this ide cdrom

>> to make it works?
>
>It might if the IDE is causing problems.
>is NS87415 code causing problems?
>
>> btw can you have a look in
>>your dmesg to see if you also encounter 
>> NS87415's messages?
>
>NS87415 is the IDE controller on the c3xxx motherboard.
>Disconnecting the cable will only make the CD-ROM drive inaccessible.
>Suckyio provides NS87415-like functionality and is quite buggy.

So according to your test, it is well the access to ide cd-rom which cause
the hang of the boot.

Thanks,
    Joel


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