From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 11 06:41:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA28392 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 06:41:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from blue.bad.bris.ac.uk (blue.bad.bris.ac.uk [137.222.132.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id GAA28384 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 06:41:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from taff@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk) Received: (qmail 7604 invoked by uid 57242); 11 Jan 1998 14:41:04 -0000 Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 14:40:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Aled Treharne Reply-To: felix@royal.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ATAPI Controller not ready? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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." For PGP Public key finger taff@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk #include(std.disclaim) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNLjZ/8aJukNO1flNAQEtMQQAh47KI8jBV8FR7bpvs/UlkLeUKp7pBxQw J9l9Tf91iIBz1UUbH1x9mmilFuD9ga2WCiFrfUTKPBXMX+Xnw/ZNMyqvH8/WqPni ipdVx9XKQmccDvpikrFLTfIbwbNLMM3TP1hbKHdQ/vAX2haMLTGwsVHrGFlRYuv7 sN0tLvXWB7o= =LpUN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----