Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 07 Feb 2000 13:53:59 +0000 | From | "Stephen Landamore" <> | Subject | Re: SCSI errors while playing music and doing a tape backup |
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William M. Perkins wrote: > I am getting the following SCSI timeout error while I try to > do a dump (version 0.4b13) tape (Archive Python 25501-XXX > Rev: 5.45) backup and play music off my cdrom (Yamaha CRW6416S > Rev: 1.0b) using xmcd (version 2.2) all at the same time: [...] > The music will stop, and the dump will ask to restart. I am > running Red Hat 6.1 (cartman) with the 2.2.15pre5 kernel. The > system has two NCR SCSI host controls: the hard disks are all > on host 0. [...] > If I play DOOM using the Dumb software (ldoom) on a tty screen, > instead of playing music, a similar problem does occur when > the ldoom program starts.
I too have noticed this, but only with DOOM... a few weeks ago I got an urge to play doom, I had an old backup from an ancient Slackware install which refused to run on RH 6.0 (no libc5), so I grabbed the source + recompiled. Bang! Every time.
I ended up rebooting to DOS to play doom, and promised myself I'd figure this one out later (I never did).
This weekend, I noticed a problem with my spectrum emulator (spectemu-0.84 IIRC), one of the game images was acting strangely. So I recompiled vgaspect, ran it and... boom!
It bombs out while autodetecting my card... I'm typing this at work, so all this is off the top of my head: the first line is 'blah blah blah undetected card' then loads of SCSI errors then 'using VGA driver' then finally a segfault.
I kept the _old_ (precompiled) vgaspect binary, and that works fine. Just the new recompiled one that bombs...
I suspect libsvga is doing some bad magic (though why on earth it would mess with my SCSI subsystem is quite beyond me). I think I need to configure libsvga, but I'm not sure how (/etc/vgalib?) or else I need to recompile libsvga with some debug info enabled...
Does your dump program use libsvga?
For the record I also have similar hardware: a diamond fireport 40 scsi controller (ncr53c875 based) and a yamaha crw6416s cdrom drive. The Yamaha is quite a new addition...
If I figure it out, I'll let you know, but of course if anyone can say 'ah ha! it's XYZ' then that would save me a lot of work :-)
regards, stephen
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