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RE: [Sheflug] PCMCIA woes continue

I am happy to hear that you got PCMCIA working (sort of)
Is the CD-ROM and Floppy one of those "ultrabay" removable things, it
may share/overlap an IRQ with the PCMCIA card slot??

Good luck

James

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james@sheflug.co.uk
james@mearsonline.co.uk

 
> Hi All
> 
> Thanks to the help at the last meet I am much further along 
> the road to getting my pcmcia modem working.  In fact it does 
> work.  However, I now get some undesirable behaviour.  If I 
> tail -f /var/log/messages, plug the card in and then remove 
> it I get the following. <><><> Sep 24 22:24:40 laptop kernel: 
> ttyS01 at port 0x02f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Sep 24 22:25:02 
> laptop kernel: tty01 unloaded Sep 24 22:25:02 laptop kernel: 
> sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. Sep 24 22:25:02 
> laptop kernel: cdrom: open failed. Sep 24 22:25:03 laptop 
> kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 <><><>
> 
> When the card is in I can dial up and it works, however I 
> noticed I had CDROM errors on shutdown and investigated and 
> found the above message and also discovered that I can pop a 
> cd in and read it OK, but can't then take it out again.  I 
> haven't tried the floppy drive yet (no floppies!).
> 
> Could this be an interrupt issue?  Should I exclude that irq 
> or port for use with pcmcia?  I already excluded irq 3 on the 
> advice of a website I found which is what finally got it to 
> work in the first place ( 
> http://marge.cineca.it/aventuri/public/Linux_on_a_Toshiba_Sate
llite_S3000-214.html  - different laptop but it worked for me on my Acer
Aspire 1400).  Quite why my pcmcia card is interfering with the cdrom
and floppy is a mystery to me.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Neil

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