Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 14:40:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Aled Treharne <taff@bad.bris.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ATAPI Controller not ready? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980111143159.7570A-100000@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk>
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I got rather a strange message the other day. I have 2.2.2 on my machine
and was attempting to upgrade to 2.2.5. While copying some files from the
CD (which is attached to the IDE controller on the plug'n'pray sound
card) the system went slightly awry. I got the following error:
ATAPI 1.1 : Controller not ready for cmd
The current process locked, and I was unable to umount the CD-ROM, even
with the -f flag. lsof showed no open files on the CDROM. Now, whenever I
use either windoze 95 or FBSD on my machine, the CDROM is accessed at
random for no apparent reason, and while the CDROM is being accessed, my
machine locks for a short period. This also causes windoze to crash, but
in a very strange way - it suddenly flicks to the "It is now safe to turn
your machine off" screen, with no intervening messages.
Can anyone help me? The CDROM is a 20-speed Novatech own make drive, and
the soundcard is a 16-bit SB compatible Novatech card, both less than a
year old. I can't take the CDROM off the sound card, because my
motherboard has only 1 IDE controller (hey - this one even has VLB
slots!) and both channels are being used.
Looking forward to your replies.
- -Taff.
Aled Treharne felix@royal.net
"Big Bird meets Salvador Dali has been brought to you by the numbers L and
), and by the letter 3."
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