Re: 2.3.43: IDE CD mount(8) hangs; ditto SysRq

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Sun, 13 Feb 2000 14:14:00 -0500

On Sun, Feb 13 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > Your CDROM can not handle the full throttle auto-tuning, the is a problem
> > with the device's firmware or other hardware. If your drive behaved well
> > and responded correctly to the active-hardware correction of the BIOS
> > settings, it would have never barffed the message.
>
> Why doesn't it give trouble with revision 2.56 of the driver then?

Forget the 2.56/3.0x, that's the uniform layer and has nothing to
do with this bug. I think the IDE tuning is more likely, and --

> > > It is identified as CRD-8400C, ATAPI CDROM drive, alone on ide1.
>
> This is a generic (low-cost) CD drive, so the possible firmware (or other
> hardware) problems do sound possible.

buggy firmware on el-cheapo drives are always a big problem.

-- 
*  Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
*  Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
*  http://www.kernel.dk


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