Cdrom drive access question

[MonMotha]

Go ahead and put all relevent errors on an HTML page or something and 
post it to a site (I can post it if you don't have access to a web host, 
email me the stuff privately).  I'm no kernel guru, but I'll go ahead 
and take a look at it.

--MonMotha (monmotha at indy.rr.com)

Dean Fujioka wrote:

> 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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