Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Dec 1996 13:38:14 -0500 (EST) | From | Nathan Bryant <> | Subject | SCSI Weirdness (was Re: SCSI timeouts with Advansys driver under Linux) |
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Here's the latest news from the front lines in my battle with SCSI cards and CD-R drives...
The Advansys card seems to be behaving now. Bob Frey sent me a patch which fixes some lockups. It appears that the original SCSI timeouts were caused by a bad CD; they only happened when I was reading from one particular CD.
However... I did a test-run with the HP 4020i CD-R drive, burning a CD in "dummy" mode. It appeared to talk to the CD-R with no problems. But, after it was done writing, cdwrite decided to wipe out my partition table and send some weird commands to the hard drive causing it to spin down and stop responding to the system until I powered everything down and restarted! I had to recreate my partition table, reinstall LILO, and reinstall Windoze 95 from scratch. (Of course.)
Now everything is more or less back to normal... cdwrite hasn't decided to wipe out my partition table again, and I've successfully written a CD.
The only thing that's a little odd is that I can no longer write CD's at double speed! I successfully wrote 2 or 3 CD's at 2X speed before all this weirdness started happening.
+-----------------------+----------------------------------+ | Nathan Bryant | Resident Unix Geek | | nathan@burgessinc.com | Burgess Business Solutions, Inc. | +-----------------------+----------------------------------+
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