[ltp] R40 Hangs during post cd detection and blinking caps lock

[morpheus]

I have the same problem on my R32...the "solution" is to remove the
optical drive...Now I have two nice DVD drives that I can't use!
-m

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 14:40 +0100, Robert Svoboda wrote:
> * Kurt Humes <khumes86@yahoo.com> [2005-01-13 08:20]:
> > I have a Thinkpad R40 Running Slackware 9.1.  It has a
> > removable cdrw/dvd drive.  Last spring the system would hang
> > during post while detecting the cd drive.  The laptop worked
> > fine without it for a while but then I started getting bios
> > error messages like system timer error.  I sent it back to
> > IBM and they replaced the system board which fixed the
> > problem.  But now it is happening again.  It no longer boots
> > with the cd drive, I have not gotten the bios error messages
> > yet but every once in a while the system will freeze and the
> > caps lock led will start blinking.  Wondering if anyone has
> > had similar problems or maybee something is not configured
> > properly and is causing these problems.
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I have the same machine and have exactly the same problem.
> First, everything worked well, then after ~one month, booting
> was sometimes painfully slow at cdrom detection followed by
> very slow grub start. Then I saw some 3-4 lines of strange
> messages while detecting hdc (cdrom). This was getting worse
> so most of the time wasn't able to boot the machine with cdrom
> plugged in.
> 
> I went to IBM service they replaced cdrom drive and everything
> worked well again. Unfortunately this kind of behavior (very
> slow grub start + strange lines while detecting hdc) started
> appearing again very soon after replacement. But so far I
> didn't experienced total machine hang so this is bearable.
> 
> It has been working for three weeks without problems.  So I'm
> praying that it magically disappeared.
> 
> This is probably of no help for you, but I think it's almost
> always better to not being alone in such situations :-)
> 
> Forgot to mention that I was searching the web while first
> problems appeared and found some threads about similar
> experiences. Unfortunately I don't have URLs.
> 
> Robert