On Thu, 22 May 2003, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: >On Thu, 22 May 2003, Matt Wilson wrote: >>On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 09:13:29PM -0700, Oisin Feeley wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I've been trying to rescue a laptop with the RH9 >>> (shrike) CD#1 and the following setup: >> >>Which manufacturer and model? >> >Hi Matt, >the laptop is a Sony VAIO R505TL (PCG-6132). The CD-ROM is a Sony Vaio >PCGA-CD51 (identified in dmesg as CD-224E ATAPI DVD/CD-ROM by kernel >2.4.18-19.7.x or 2.4.20-13-9). > Some additional information. The laptop works with Red Hat 7.3 and this is information taken from the same laptop running Red Hat 7.3 with updated kernel (2.4.18-19.7.x): >From dmesg (I have abbreviated some of the output in parantheses to give context): (hda found) (raid) (NET) (initrd freed) (usb) (SCSI) (kjournald) (parport) (e100) Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22 options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 01:02.0. Please try using pci=biosirq. Yenta IRQ list 0cb8, irq0 Socket status: 30000419 cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x370-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4df cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean cd: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. hdc: CD-224E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x180-0x187,0x386 on irq 3 ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide ide_cs: hdc: Vcc = 5.0, Vpp = 0.0 hdc: bad special flag: 0x03 hdc: ATAPI 20X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12