Hi there

I downloaded puppy-2.17-nolzma-seamonkey-fulldrivers.iso and created a bootable CD. I'm running Puppy on an IBM ThinkPad 600e laptop (192 MB RAM; 400 MHz CPU). Everything boots up okay.

I'm trying to access an IBM Microdrive (512 MB) through the PCMCIA slot using a PCMCIA adapter. While I can eventually access the drive (after about 25 min), and the files that it contains, the process take a very long time - so much so that it really isn't usable.

Once Puppy has booted up, I insert the PCMCIA adapter containing the Microdrive. There are no beeps to indicate that it has been recognized and configured correctly. After about 5-10 minutes the 'PCMCIA disk [hde1]' icon appears in MUT, but it takes a long time to mount the drive. Finally after a further 5-10 minutes the drive is mounted and I can access the drive and its contents (although this takes ages too). The stages described above take similar lengths of time when I issue the equivalent commands via a terminal window at the command line.

Please find below the Dmesg output - the problem appears to be: 'hde: lost interrupt'

Any ideas what the problem is? Should I be entering any cheat codes at boot-up to aid PCMCIA access/configuration, or editing specific scripts?

I would be extremely grateful for some help/advice.

All the best

Tallis

Dmesg:

pnp: 00:0a: iomem range 0x100000-0xbffffff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:0a: iomem range 0xffff0000-0xffffffff could not be reserved
PCI: Ignore bogus resource 6 [0:0] of 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: d000-dfff
MEM window: 70000000-dfffffff
PREFETCH window: e0000000-f7ffffff
PCI: Bus 2, cardbus bridge: 0000:00:02.0
IO window: 00001000-000010ff
IO window: 00001400-000014ff
PREFETCH window: 10000000-13ffffff
MEM window: 14000000-17ffffff
PCI: Bus 6, cardbus bridge: 0000:00:02.1
IO window: 00001800-000018ff
IO window: 00001c00-00001cff
PREFETCH window: 18000000-1bffffff
MEM window: 1c000000-1fffffff
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:06.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:02.1
NET: Registered protocol family 2
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
TCP reno registered
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 927k freed
Simple Boot Flag at 0x33 set to 0x1
NTFS driver 2.1.28 [Flags: R/W].
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
pnp: Device 00:0d activated.
00:0d: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 13824K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcf0-0xfcf7, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcf8-0xfcff, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: IBM-DBCA-206480, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1902B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide0: generic PnP IDE interface
ide1: generic PnP IDE interface
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: IBM-DBCA-206480, ATA DISK drive
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1902B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 12594960 sectors (6448 MB) w/420KiB Cache, CHS=13328/15/63
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303,PNP0f13] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input1
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 196k freed
squashfs: no version for "sqlzma_init" found: kernel tainted.
squashfs: version 3.2-r2 (2007/01/15) Phillip Lougher
squashfs: LZMA suppport for slax.org by jro
hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:07.2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 11, io base 0x00008400
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
aufs 20070618
fuse init (API version 7.
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
aufs test_add:419:mount[1713]: uid/gid/perm /pup_ro2 0/0/0755, 0/0/01777
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 440BX Chipset.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0x40000000
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:02.0 [1014:00eb]
Yenta: Enabling burst memory read transactions
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:02.0, mfunc 0xfba97543, devctl 0x62
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x06b8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:02.1 [1014:00eb]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:02.1, mfunc 0xfba97543, devctl 0x62
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x06b8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:06.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:01:00.0
create - never read codec ready from AC'97
it is not probably bug, try to use CS4236 driver
Sound Fusion CS46xx: probe of 0000:00:06.0 failed with error -5
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: Found 0000:00:07.3 device
piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: IBM system detected; this module may corrupt your serial eeprom! Refusing to load module!
piix4_smbus: probe of 0000:00:07.3 failed with error -1
pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage from process: cardmgr.
pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please expect breakage unless you upgrade to new tools.
pcmcia: see [kernel org url]
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
IBM machine detected. Enabling interrupts during APM calls.
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
pnp: Device 00:0b activated.
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc, irq 7 [PCSPP]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
lp0: console ready
pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: excluding 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff
cs: memory probe 0x60000000-0x60ffffff: clean.
pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia1.0
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Probing IDE interface ide2...
hde: IBM-DSCM-10512, CFA DISK drive
ide2 at 0x100-0x107,0x10e on irq 3
hde: max request size: 128KiB
hde: 1052352 sectors (538 MB) w/60KiB Cache, CHS=1044/16/63
hde:<4>hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde1
ide-cs: hde: Vpp = 0.0
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt