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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:

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> 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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