Hi Jim, thanks a lot for your answer and time!,

Do you mean VAIO SR33, like a sony laptop?

Yes, sorry, it is a Sony laptop, a PCG-SR33K, originally with 128MB, upgraded now to 256Mb; besides that the original hardware...

Do you really have 3? IDE controllers? hde would be the primary device on the 3rd controller. Is this in a docking station? Is this really a USB or SCSI cd? is it controlled by ide-scsi?

Oh, I am embarassed to say that I have no idea what to answer. As far as I know this laptop has no docking station available, but I am not sure (no clue about the other questions). The external cd is through a PCMCIA card .

try to mount /dev/sr0 and see what that does..

I get the following: mount: /dev/sr0 is not a valid block device

what does dmesg say about your cd?

Answer below. Thanks again, Manuel Linux version 2.4.19-4GB (root@Pentium.suse.de) (gcc version 3.2) #1 Fri Sep 13 13:14:56 UTC 2002 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e9c00 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000fff0000 - 000000000ffff800 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000000ffff800 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) Scanning bios EBDA for MXT signature 255MB LOWMEM available. ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000 Advanced speculative caching feature not present On node 0 totalpages: 65520 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 61424 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. ACPI: RSDP (v000 SONY ) @ 0x000f8010 ACPI: RSDT (v001 SONY D1 08193.01328) @ 0x0fffcf0d ACPI: FADT (v002 SONY D1 08193.01328) @ 0x0ffff754 ACPI: BOOT (v001 SONY D1 08193.01328) @ 0x0ffff7d8 ACPI: MADT not present Sony Vaio laptop detected. Building zonelist for node : 0 Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda5 vga=788 Initializing CPU#0 Detected 596.326 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 1189.47 BogoMIPS Memory: 255692k/262080k available (1553k kernel code, 6000k reserved, 416k data, 152k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 128K CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel Celeron (Coppermine) stepping 0a Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel ACPI: Subsystem revision 20020829 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9be, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5) ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 9) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs *9) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs *9) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *9) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *9) PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:07.0 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0c.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0a.0 Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16) apm: overridden by ACPI. mxt_scan_bios: enter Starting kswapd bigpage subsystem: allocated 0 bigpages (=0MB). kinoded started VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized aio_setup: num_physpages = 16380 aio_setup: sizeof(struct page) = 48 vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf0000000, mapped to 0xd0816000, size 8192k vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=7 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:8916 vesafb: scrolling: redraw vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 19991 bytes). Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 82x26 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc90-0xfc97, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc98-0xfc9f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: TOSHIBA MK1016GAP, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 blk: queue c037be64, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hda: safely enabled flush hda: 19640880 sectors (10056 MB), CHS=1222/255/63, UDMA(33) ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M floppy0: no floppy controllers found RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 16 devices) Cronyx Ltd, Synchronous PPP and CISCO HDLC (c) 1994 Linux port (c) 1998 Building Number Three Ltd & Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak. ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 232k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal reiserfs: checking transaction log (ide0(3,5)) for (ide0(3,5)) reiserfs: using ordered data mode Using r5 hash to sort names VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed Unmounting old root Trying to free ramdisk memory ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 152k freed md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. LVM version 1.0.5(mp-v6)(15/07/2002) module loaded Adding Swap: 248968k swap-space (priority 42) MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-1 usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 13:53:01 Sep 13 2002 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:07.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:08.0 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xfca0, IRQ 9 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1 hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 2 usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x707/0x200) is not claimed by any active driver. hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 3 usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x54c/0x56) is not claimed by any active driver. pegasus.c: v0.4.26 (2002/03/21):Pegasus/Pegasus II USB Ethernet driver usb.c: registered new driver pegasus pegasus.c: eth0: SMC 202 USB Ethernet Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: Sony Model: MSC-U02 Rev: 1.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 sd_init() sd: allocated major 8 sd_attach() sd: find_free_slot ...<7>sd: ... found 08:00 Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 sd_finish() sd_init_onedisk (0,0), sda 08:00 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1249 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Current sd00:00: sns = 70 2 ASC=3a ASCQ= 0 Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured USB Mass Storage device found at 3 USB Mass Storage support registered. sg: find_free_slot ...<7>sg: initializing sg_major_array ...<4>sg: allocated major 21 sg: ... found 15:00 sg_attach: dev0=(21:0) Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. sd_init_onedisk (0,0), sda 08:00 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Current sd00:00: sns = 70 2 ASC=3a ASCQ= 0 Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. sd_init_onedisk (0,0), sda 08:00 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Current sd00:00: sns = 70 2 ASC=3a ASCQ= 0 Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. sd_init_onedisk (0,0), sda 08:00 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Current sd00:00: sns = 70 2 ASC=3a ASCQ= 0 Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22 options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] PCI: Enabling device 00:0c.0 (0000 -> 0002) PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0c.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0a.0 Yenta IRQ list 0cb8, PCI irq9 Socket status: 30000419 Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. sd_init_onedisk (0,0), sda 08:00 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Current sd00:00: sns = 70 2 ASC=3a ASCQ= 0 Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0820-0x08ff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x080f: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x170-0x177 0x370-0x377 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:09.0 IPv6 v0.8 for NET4.0 IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver eth0: no IPv6 routers present isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 713 Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. sd_init_onedisk (0,0), sda 08:00 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Current sd00:00: sns = 70 2 ASC=3a ASCQ= 0 Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. sd_init_onedisk (0,0), sda 08:00 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Current sd00:00: sns = 70 2 ASC=3a ASCQ= 0 Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. sd_init_onedisk (0,0), sda 08:00 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Current sd00:00: sns = 70 2 ASC=3a ASCQ= 0 Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. sd_init_onedisk (0,0), sda 08:00 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Current sd00:00: sns = 70 2 ASC=3a ASCQ= 0 Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. sd_init_onedisk (0,0), sda 08:00 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Current sd00:00: sns = 70 2 ASC=3a ASCQ= 0 Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. sd_init_onedisk (0,0), sda 08:00 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Current sd00:00: sns = 70 2 ASC=3a ASCQ= 0 Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table Linux video capture interface: v1.00 -- |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | At Boca Raton FL: April 7-8, Santa Barbara CA: May 12-June 8 (est.), | Penn State-PA: June 8-June 12 | Manuel Tiglio | tiglio@lsu.edu | http://relativity.phys.lsu.edu | Department of Physics & Astronomy, 202 Nicholson Hall | Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001 | Phone: (225) 578-7636 |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I see. I thought Yast would do that automatically, since I installed suse from that cdrom... In any case, how do I fix this? Thanks Manuel

Hello,

your CDROM can't work, because you didn't load PCMCIA. (there is nothing about PCMCI in your dmesg)

Also check you 'sda', your USB device because that one is giving A LOT of errors. (your Sony device)

rgrds, Bart

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