Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:14:35 +0800 (WST) From: Michael Slater <mikey@iexpress.net.au> To: Josh <josh2@marvin.albury.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI - cd hangs 2.2.6 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980806091344.12120A-100000@atlas.iexpress.net.au> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980806102121.josh2@marvin.albury.net.au>
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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 <josh2@marvin.albury.net.au> > 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
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