[nmglug] Re: nmglug Digest, Vol 22, Issue 12

[a_kaluta]

>From Anthony Kaluta
Subject: [nmglug] CD-Rom wheredit go
No I did not get it going no apparant loose connections.thanks
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>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 07:24:21 -0600
>> From: "a_kaluta" <akaluta at zianet.com>
>> Subject: [nmglug] CD-Rom wheredit go
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>> Dear Club Members;
>> I went to load a cd-disk from Sam.
>> It seems /cdrom , /dev/hdc  are no such file or directory.
>> Kernal.log, says hdc: stat error:status=0x00 {}
>> ide failed optcd was : unknown.
>> README not very encouraging i.e try kernal 2.4.
>> I do not find the necessary clues in P. Sheers book.
>> nor in "How Linux Works".
>> For the initiated, I suspect the solution is obvious.
>> Any specifically applacable, tantalizing clues out there, anyone 
>> answering
>> trivial questions today?  Anthony Kaluta
>
>
> That error "hdc stat error:status=0x00 {}
>                   ide failed optcd was : unknown."
>
> Looks like some kind of problem in the initialization of the during boot. 
> Could
> be hardware, could be a plug coming loose, loose connection somewhere.
> Otherwise could be the drive itself has a hardware problem.
>
> Otherwise might be a corrupted software driver or setting. It could be a 
> lot of
> things, and there is not enough information from that error message for me 
> to
> tell anyway. I think I got an error message like that and just put in 
> another
> and was in business again. But it could be a BIOS setting, who knows. Did 
> you
> get it going?
> NO I DID NOT GET IT GOING NO APPARENT LOOSE CONNECTIONS
>
>>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 09:16:55 -0600
>> From: Andres Paglayan <andres at paglayan.com>
>> Subject: [nmglug] flash rom writer,
>> To: "NMGLUG.org mailing list" <nmglug at nmglug.org>
>> Message-ID: <42E10DE7.7070701 at paglayan.com>
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>>
>> Howdy,
>> I have a pcchips mobo that has an screwed bios, there is no embedded
>> tool to flash and won't boot,
>> do you know of any place where they have a rom writer and I can flash
>> the rom?
>> Thx,
>>
>
>
> Sometimes they have the ROM writers at production companies, but it would 
> be
> rare for someone to have the correct one for your chip. Maybe you could 
> make an
> adapter if necessary.
>
> A friend of mine had a with a BIOS that had been hit by and when I tried 
> to get
> another copy to try to flash it, it said that it was a situation where had 
> only
> bought one copy and then copied it to all the others it sold. M520 I 
> believe.
> Well, I never did fix that one. Just went on to another. Anyway, that was 
> an
> awful thing to find out. Maybe they have made something available now as 
> the
> search results seem to indicate.
>
> I guess not too many people keep a ROM writer around. They would certainly 
> be
> handy for fixing a BIOS that is corrupted enough that you can't boot from
> floppy.
>
> So, did you get anywhere on this?
>
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