Cdrom drive access question

[Dean Fujioka]

Charles,
Thanks for the reply.  Unfortunately my controller only has one interface,
which has the CDrom drive and a 100mb zip drive on it.  I have two hard
drives, both IDE on the primary channel. My computer will now not boot into
linux very stably, and freezes causing me to run fsck manually over and over
again.  I've unplugged the cdrom and was able to dmesg, and got something
I/O error on sba 08:00 something or other. I can post it if you think it
would help, but it might take some doing, as I'm having trouble just keeping
everything running at this point. I didn't get to check /var/log/messages
yet, but will try.
thanks,
dean


----- Original Message -----
From: <cpaul at telemetrybox.org>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at maile.hi.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 8:25 AM
Subject: [luau] Re: Cdrom drive access question


> If your SCSI controller has two interfaces, try putting your CDRom on the
(slower) interface seperate from your Hard Drive.  Short of that, check your
/var/log/messages or dmesg to see if there are any periodic bus errors which
might be associated with your performance hiccups.
>
> aloha,
> charles
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:43:31PM -1000, Dean wrote:
> > I was wondering if anyone has experienced issues with cdrom drives that
> > check for a cd every minute or so. Whenever this happens, the screen
> > freezes temporarily and then comes back.  The thing is, though that only
> > the scsi cd-writer (yamaha 4x on a adaptec 2940AU) is having the
> > problem, while the cdrom on the ide channel does not do this. Is there
> > any way to disable this? please point me to a man page or something...
> > just typing drives me nutz.
> >
> > thanks,
> > dean
> >
> >
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