Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 23:14:36 -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.3.96.980112231317.22079q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980111143159.7570A-100000@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk>
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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.) > 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. That's IDE for you -- lock the system while we borrow your CPU to move data to the disk. But I think you're running into interrupt conflicts. 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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