1 of 2 CDROM freezes

Jay Daniels drs at pointyhats.com
Thu Apr 29 03:05:32 UTC 2004


Why does this message have ^M at the end of each line?

jay

On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 05:55:15PM +0400, amar_for_linux wrote:
> Thanks for replying!
> 
> Forgot to mention, both  CD drives were properly on windows 2K (dual boot),
> no idea why Linux should find a fault in one CDROM...
> 
>  
> Thanks!
> amar
> 
> -------Original Message-------
>  
> From: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Date: 04/27/04 16:19:10
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: 1 of 2 CDROM freezes
>  
> On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 07:41, Amar Kumar Padhi wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have got two CDROM drives on my PC  (99 make, P2, 512MB, dualboot-
> > win2k/fedora core1). CDROM1 (read/write) gets recognized but CDROM (read
> > only) just hangs on being accessed.
> >
> > ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 40X MAXIMUM (hangs!)
> > Samsung CD-R/RW SW-224B.       (ok!)
> >
> > One gets recognized as SCSI drive (samsung, about 2 years old) and is
> > operational.The other drive gets recignized as IDE (ATAPI, about 5 years
> > old). Anything I try simply does not work. The system just hangs and I
> need
> > to restart. Even saying "eject cdrom" hangs the system.
> >
> > When I boot with GNOME, it just hangs in the startup screen (on the CDROM
> > icon). KDE allowed me to get in and check out the drives from the shell. I
> > am lost as to what needs to be done next. Any help would be great guys!
> > Thanks!
> >
> > from dmesg:
> > hdb: ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 40X MAXIMUM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> > blk: queuec040cfc0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0Xffffffff)
> > hdb: Disabling (U)DMA for ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE.
> >
> > from /etc/fstab:
> > /dev/cdrom     /mnt/cdrom      udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> > /dev/cdrom1    /mnt/cdrom1     udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> >
> >
> > from /etc/sysconfig/hwconf:
> > class: CDROM
> > bus: IDE
> > detached: 0
> > device: hdb
> > driver: ignore
> > desc: "ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 40X MAXIMUM"
> > -
> > class: CDROM
> > bus: SCSI
> > detached: 0
> > device: scd0
> > driver: ignore
> > desc: "Samsung CD-R/RW SW-224B"
> > host: 0
> > id: 0
> > channel: 0
> > lun: 0
> > generic: sg0
> >
> > Thanks!
> > amar
> >
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>  
> Any drive will "hang the system" if it has I/O errors. To check try
> mounting from the command line < mount /mnt/cdrom > and if there are I/O
> errors they will be output to the terminal.
>  
> The CD R/W being seen as scsi indicates a 2.4.x kernel and is needed for
> burning.
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