From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Aug 27 13:40:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA28556 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 13:40:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA28550 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 13:40:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA01491; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 13:38:48 -0700 (PDT) To: Gene Stark cc: Bill , bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/1515: Unable to install 2.1.5 from CD-ROM. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Aug 1996 07:27:23 EDT." <199608271127.HAA19190@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 13:38:48 -0700 Message-ID: <1489.841178328@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Don't know if this is still there, but there used to be bugs in the > Mitsumi driver that would get it confused sometimes. You might wish > to try ejecting the CD-ROM and putting it back in again a couple of times. > I think there was some sort of race condition that kept it from sensing > that there was a CD in the drive, but opening the door and closing it > again generally made it feel better. Someone also noted that they'd fixed their own Mitsumi problems by booting with the drive open, waiting until the probe caused it to close. This apparently resulted in a successful probe. Jordan