[ltp] PCMCIA CDROM drive

[Scott Dixon]

I am running RH 6.0 on a ThinkPad 560e and use the same CDROM drive with
success so I am sure it works.  I can offer you the following
information which might help you.  I generally run the CDROM (which uses
a PCMCIA SCSI card, a rebranded Adaptec 1460A) along with a Xircom
ethernet/modem card.  The Xircom card takes IRQ 3 and the SCSI card for
the CDROM then gets IRQ 9.  This works fine.  However, as a test, I
tried using the SCSI card alone.  It then takes IRQ3 and I then get the
same sorts of timeout errors you are seeing.  I believe, but cannot be
certain, that this behaviour is new in RH 6.0 since I think I was able
to use the SCSI card alone in RH 5.2.  Be that as it may, I would
suggest that you try your SCSI card on a different IRQ (IRQ 9 seems to
work for me).  I haven't looked into this any further since it generally
isn't a problem with my setup, so I can't give you the appropriate setup
changes off the top of my head but a little investigation into PCMCIA
setup should give it to you.
Hope this helps and let me know if you fix the problem.
Cheers,
Scott

Andreas Nolda wrote:
> 
> Dear Thinkpad users,
> 
> I am running RedHat 6.0 on a Thinkpad 560 X.  Unfortunately, my PCMCIA
> CDROM drive (a Sony Discman PRD-250) is not correctly initialized (or
> whatever).  When inserting the card, I am getting the following
> messages:
> 
>         Nov 14 15:56:57 tp cardmgr[176]: initializing socket 0
>         Nov 14 15:56:57 tp cardmgr[176]: socket 0: Adaptec APA-1460 SlimSCSI
>         Nov 14 15:56:58 tp cardmgr[176]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.5-15de/scsi/scsi_mod.o'
>         Nov 14 15:56:58 tp cardmgr[176]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.5-15de/scsi/sr_mod.o'
>         Nov 14 15:56:58 tp cardmgr[176]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.5-15de/pcmcia/aha152x_cs.o'
>         Nov 14 15:56:59 tp kernel: aha152x: processing commandline: ok
>         Nov 14 15:56:59 tp kernel: aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s) Nov 14 15:56:59 tp kernel: aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x340, IRQ=3, SCSI ID=7, reconnect=enabled, parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100, extended translation=disabled
>         Nov 14 15:56:59 tp kernel: aha152x: trying software interrupt, ok.
>         Nov 14 15:56:59 tp kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver; $Revision: 1.7 $
>         Nov 14 15:56:59 tp kernel: scsi : 1 host.
>         Nov 14 15:57:05 tp kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
>         Nov 14 15:57:11 tp kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
> [further messages deleted]
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