Re: [TCLUG:17250] [OT] Hardware Question

["Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com>]

How fast is your CD-ROM.  If it is faster than about 16x, you might have a
problem where it constantly is spinning up and then settling down.  In that
case - you simply need a new CD-ROM.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy@visi.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Ackermann <brian_ackermann@bbros.com>
To: tclug <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 9:12 AM
Subject: [TCLUG:17250] [OT] Hardware Question


> Hey all,
>
> I've got a quick hardware question that I think someone can answer for me.
> I've got a computer at home that behaves 'badly' when accessing both the
> Hard disk and the cdrom.  I believe the HD is attached to the IDE primary,
> and the CD is attached to the secondary.
>
> When using both items at the same time, most notably when transferring
data
> between them(I think everything works just fine if I'm listening to a CD,
> and crunching on the HD), I get errors all over the place.
>
> It seems that my HD just spins and spins and spins, and eventually the CD
> read buffer (or whatever) fills, and then times out.  Then the disk
catches
> up, grabs the buffer and flushes it, and then everything works peachy for
> another 10 seconds....
>
> As you can see, this makes lengthy installations of anything quite
> difficult.
>
> My question is, what can I do to fix this issue?  I had been planning on
> going with a full rebuild of the machine, getting a new case, mobo, and
> anything else I can't salvage from this guy.
>
> But then I started thinking that maybe if I just bought a PCI IDE
> controller, and plugged my devices into that, that my problems may be
> resolved for a good deal less money.
>
> Tell me what you think.
> Brian
>
>
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