[ILUG] errors in cedega launching games

[Conor Wynne]

> On 6/25/05, Conor Wynne <nospam at conorwynne.com> wrote:
>> hdc is the cdrom, and this error only appears when the games try to
>> access
>> the cd. So I dont think its the ide drive, this is hda.
>
> Ah my bad, udma support does not work properly on all CDROM devices,
> espercially if they are old.

This one is a dvd, not that new, but not that old either:
[root at snowwhite ~]# cat /proc/ide/hdc/model
Memorex DVD-MAXX 1648 AJ

I believe it supports udma:

[root at snowwhite ~]# cat /proc/ide/hdc/settings
name                    value           min             max             mode
----                    -----           ---             ---             ----
current_speed           66              0               70              rw
dsc_overlap             1               0               1               rw
init_speed              66              0               70              rw
io_32bit                1               0               3               rw
keepsettings            0               0               1               rw
nice1                   1               0               1               rw
number                  2               0               3               rw
pio_mode                write-only      0               255             w
unmaskirq               1               0               1               rw
using_dma               1               0               1               rw

>> How do I activate smart support then? googling with hangover...
>
> smart must be supported by your motherboard and your hdd but most of
> them do. Then search for the smart tools, you'll find them somewhere
> in your package repository, then install the package and it will
> monitor your drives via a daemon.


smartd is running, but no errors being picked up, apart from this cedega
issue.

Man page:

       smartd
       Runs the daemon in forked mode. This is the normal way to run
smartd.  Entries are logged to SYSLOG (by default
/var/log/messages.)

I was reading that some people had the issue with cable select, and
changing to master or slave resolved it.

But...

SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:02.5
SIS5513: chipset revision 0
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SIS5513: SiS 962/963 MuTIOL IDE UDMA133 controller
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: Maxtor 4D060H3, ATA DISK drive
Using cfq io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...

But mine is already on master:

hdc: Memorex DVD-MAXX 1648 AJ, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

hdd: HP COLORADO 20GB, ATAPI TAPE drive

Forgot that was connected, but its a slave device on the same channel.
I wonder could it be related?

The kernel is :
Linux snowwhite.conorwynne.com 2.6.9-11.EL #1 Wed Jun 8 16:59:52 CDT 2005
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

> Steph

Regards
Conor.

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