From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030314 Description of problem: Attempting to install fedora core test 3 on an IBM 240 laptop with an Iomega zip 650 CDRW drive. Installations on this hardware have worked fine in redhat 8 and 9. Boot system from floppy. Starts up, asks language, keyboard, install media questions. It then says it is installing the usb-storage module. Most times it then says that there is no appropriate drive to install from. Other times it seems to get a little further, then crashes saying it is getting bad magic from cpio. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot from floppy and attempt to install from external USB CD drive 2. 3. Actual Results: Does not mount cdrom or mounts it then cannot read it. Expected Results: system installs. Additional info: Note that when I tried to do a media check on the cd, that worked fine and the media passed. But I cannot install. I do not know if previous severn tests work on this machine or not.
*** Bug 107087 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Are there any error messages on tty4?
Created attachment 95178 [details] Errors produced during Severn test 3 install on IBM 240 USB cdrom
Yes - added an attachment showing the errors - sorry, didn't think of that.
This may in fact not be a problem with Severn, but a hardware problem. I note that this drive is suddenly flaky on the same computer with Redhat 9 - which it has always worked just fine with. I'll look into it some more, but I'm now fairly sure this is a problem with the Iomega drive itself.
If it's the hardware, feel free to close -- if not, it could be something usb-storage related in the kernel.
I'm going to close this since it appears that my problem here is that the hardware has become very heat sensitive and only works for a while after power-on - Sorry for the noise