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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...
-------Original Message-------
Date: 04/27/04 16:19:10
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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