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From: pa3gcu <pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl>
To: Bryan Simmons <bsimmo1@gl.umbc.edu>, pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
Cc: linux-newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CD-ROM settings and hardware resources...
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 06:40:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0210240640220D.00497@unix.pa3gcu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1035409896.31480.33.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Wednesday 23 October 2002 21:51, Bryan Simmons wrote:
> Perhaps dma wasn't the problem.  Here's the output when I execute hdparm
> on /dev/hdc (my CD-RW):
>
> /dev/hdc:
>  HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Input/output error
>  IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
>  unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
>  using_dma    =  1 (on)
>  keepsettings =  0 (off)
>  readonly     =  0 (off)
>  BLKRAGET failed: Input/output error
>  HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument
>
> When I try to retrieve the read-ahead setting: hdparm -a /dev/hdc I get:
>
> /dev/hdc:
>  BLKRAGET failed: Input/output error

There are some settings which do not apply to cdroms, one of which is 
BLRAGET, the other shown above is geometry settings of which a cdrom has not, 
so that will fail as well.

-- 
Regards Richard
pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-24  6:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <MSGID_110=3a10=2f1.2_8d16c3d8@linuxnet>
2002-10-22 13:25 ` CD-ROM settings and hardware resources Robert Couture
2002-10-22 19:45   ` Bryan Simmons
2002-10-23 15:49     ` pa3gcu
2002-10-23 19:20       ` Bryan Simmons
2002-10-23 19:34         ` Ray Olszewski
2002-10-23 20:36         ` pa3gcu
2002-10-23 21:51           ` Bryan Simmons
2002-10-24  6:40             ` pa3gcu [this message]
2002-10-24 10:35               ` Bryan Simmons
2002-10-24 14:04                 ` pa3gcu
2002-10-24  7:01             ` Ray Olszewski
2002-10-24 10:40               ` Bryan Simmons
     [not found]           ` <1035409609.31016.29.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2002-10-24  6:35             ` pa3gcu
2002-10-24 16:04               ` jbradford
2002-10-24 16:10                 ` Ray Olszewski
2002-10-24 11:11           ` jbradford
2002-10-24 13:24             ` Bryan Simmons
2002-10-25  8:42               ` Jude DaShiell
2002-10-25 10:00                 ` Bryan Simmons
2002-10-25 10:06                   ` Bryan Simmons
2002-10-25 13:04                 ` Linux Mount Partitions Abhijit Vijay
2002-10-25 13:32                   ` Paul Furness
2002-10-25 14:12                   ` Steven Smith
2002-11-07  8:28 CD-ROM settings and hardware resources Calin Szonyi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-18 19:23 CD-ROM settings and bash resources Bryan Simmons
2002-10-19 23:09 ` Ray Olszewski
2002-10-20  5:46   ` CD-ROM settings and hardware resources Bryan Simmons
2002-10-20  5:58     ` Bryan Simmons
2002-10-20  6:29       ` Ray Olszewski

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