cdrom boot hangs in a different way others reported

[Doug White]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:

> Hi :)
>
> I know there're problem with the recent ATA code and cdrom drives on booting,
> but I can't find any references to the problem I'm having in the list
> archives.
> Basically, I have a cdrom plugged-in as a slave on the primary IDE controller.

Is there a corresponding master device? Running a slave alone on a channel
is a non-supported configuration.

> When booting 5.2-p2, it just hangs right after:
> Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2399932036 Hz quality 800
> Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
>
> I get no panic, no error, no message... well no nothing, it just stays like
> this for hours...
> I tried to boot with a CD in the drive, but it does not work either.
> My drive is a "LG GCR-8523B".

Lite-On drives are known to have issues; I wonder of LG needs to be added
to the list...

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