On Sat, 13 Jan 1996 18:52:26 +1100  Giles Lean wrote:

> I got a unit attention probe during boot.  (Full dmesg output
> below.)  Note that the drive was identified correctly.

I swapped the IDE disk for another one (the slowest IDE disk ever
made, I believe :-) but the IDE CD ROM still gives errors.  Excerpts
from demsg at boot and upon attempting to mount a CD follow.


wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: 162MB, 903 cyl, 8 head, 46 sec, 512 bytes/sec <Conner Peripherals 170MB - CP30174E>
wd0: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, chs addressing
atapibus0 at wdc0
atapibus0 drive1: <MATSHITA CR-581, , 1.07> cdrom, removable.
acd0 at atapibus0 drive 1:acd0(wdc0:1): unit attention 
acd0(wdc0:1): not ready 
drive empty 


wdc0: lost interrupt
wdc0: lost interrupt
wdc0: lost interrupt
wdc0: lost interrupt
wdc0: lost interrupt
acd0(wdc0:1): illegal length indication 


Regards,

Giles