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 -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.24% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
