From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 5 18:15:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA29650 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 18:15:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from atlas.iexpress.net.au (atlas.iexpress.net.au [203.38.34.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA29637 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 18:15:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikey@iexpress.net.au) Received: from localhost (mikey@localhost) by atlas.iexpress.net.au (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id JAA12414; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:14:35 +0800 (WST) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:14:35 +0800 (WST) From: Michael Slater To: Josh cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI - cd hangs 2.2.6 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I use an ATAPI CD regularly, and never have a problem with it. This is on both 2.2.2-RELEASE and 2.2.6-RELEASE machines. Michael Slater Internet Express Perth, Western Australia On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Josh wrote: > Hi there all. > I use both 2.2.5-release and 2.2.6-release. Its a GREAT OS. > But, the damn atapi cd hangs occasionly. Is any one working on > this? I can here the purists saying "IDE sucks anyhow, use > SCSI gear", there is LOTS of IDE gear out there. I am not > threating to defect to another OS but can "Freebsd" ignore > such a large prospective base of users? I have done a bit with > FreeBSD but if a newbie had lockups every second time they tried > to use a cd I am sure they would tire of it quickly. From memory > the frustration level is pretty high anyway :-) > > I thought this was behind us but my 2.2.5-release box locked up > occasionly, now it does it 70% of the time I try and use a CD. > I actually thought it may have been the cd player. Then I put > a cd into another box running 2.2.6-release and when I tried to > umount /cdrom it locked up. After I tried to change to another > console it beeped at me and rebooted :-( > I may be unlucky and I am the only one this has happened to, I hope so > but if not I would love to see it rectified. I have more info for > any interested parties so if you want more detail please ask me. > > Unfortunately I do not have the time OR the kernel debugging skills > to attack this in any meaningfull way. > > Josh > > ---------------------------------- > E-Mail: Josh > Date: 06-Aug-98 > Time: 09:33:45 > > This message was sent by XFMail > ---------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message