Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:29:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: felix@royal.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI Controller not ready? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980113202832.24708k-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980113180459.1811A-100000@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk>
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On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Aled Treharne wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Doug White wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Aled Treharne wrote: > > > 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 > > Set your BIOS's `Plug & Play OS' option to `No' or `None'. Your sound > > card is taking defaults and that is probably stomping on your tertiary IDE > > controller. (yeah, it's conflicting with itself.) > > OK, a small problem with this - my BIOS doesn't know what Plug'n'Pray is. > It is a very old 486DX2 computer with an equally old motherboard! :) > If it's conflicting with itself, then how come it has only recently > started to do it after some 8-12 months of happy use? Okay, scratch that theory. Perhaps your CD is dying, dirty, or the cable is slightly pulled off? My SCSI CDs throw a total fit when they have media errors. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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