On Sunday 15 August 2004 04:19 pm, I wrote: > just trying to mount one of the two ATAPI > devices will cause an unkillable hanging process. Either the CD-RW or > the CD-R. - this must have something to do with (here is where I try > to pretend I know what I am talking about) SG_IO in the 2.6 kernel, > no? OK - and the magic trick was... rebooting. of course. I still remember how to do that from my Win95 days. I didn't do anything else to solve the problem other than post a PO'd message to this list and make an ass of myself, maybe that helped. I was able to make a coaster with k3b. But now it looks like there are "DriveReady SeekComplete Error"s on /dev/hdc (the CDROM drive) and "cmd 0x28 timed out" - but once DMA is disabled it works. Is the CDROM drive failing? thanks -S
