Re: SOLVED (mostly) - Re: cd/cd-rw confusion and hanging WAS: argh! 'cdrecord --scanbus'...

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On Sunday 15 August 2004 19:54, Sy Beamont wrote:
>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?
>
That would be my best guess, based on a very limited dataset of one 
here.

>thanks
>
>-S

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