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 > > _________________________________________________________________ > Easiest Money Transfer to India. Send Money To 6000 Indian Towns. > http://go.msnserver.com/IN/42198.asp Easiest Way To Send Money Home! 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. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
