Re: PCMCIA CD-ROM does not work

[Thom Borton <borton@phys.ethz.ch>]

You were both right. With CONFIG_ISA the system does not hang when I 
plug in the PCMCIA card, but I cannot mount it later. 

What can I do then?

Thanks for your help, 

Thom

On Friday 10 October 2003 18:27, you wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 05:44:30PM +0200, Thom Borton wrote:
>  > Thanks a lot, I tried the parameters
>  > 	ide1=0x386,0x180 pci=off
>  > and it did not work. pci=off seems to have broken quite a lot
>  > (fb, jogdial, ...). Just leaving it away and just having
>  > ide1=0x386,0x180 didn't help the CD-ROM drive either.
>
> Something else that needs fixing is pcmcia-cs has its exclude list
> for the RadeonIGP bug set way too wide.
> /etc/pcmcia/config.opts has..
>
> exclude port 0x380-0x3ff
>
> Which is bad news, as the Vaio wants port 0x386. The actual ports
> that cause problems are 0x3b0->0x3bb and 0x3d3
>
> After fixing this, it detects the drive, but hangs when you try and
> mount it.
>
> 		Dave

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Thom Borton
Switzerland