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CD-ROM mounting problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dirk Foersterling)
Thu Feb 20 13:29:13 1997
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:23:56 +0100
From: dirk@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (Dirk Foersterling)
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu (Linux SCSI list)
Hi,
Until yesterday I only used CD-ROM drives (2x) with proprietary
controllers. The mount command mounted the discs properly no matter how
long the spin-up and initialisation time was.
Now, I use a SCSI drive (Pioneer DR-U10X) and I have to submit the most
mount commands for that drive at least twice. In most cases, the first
mount fails, but another mount command supplied later does the job.
I have a ncr825 based card and use the ncr53c8xx driver.
It seems, that the SCSI-CD-ROM driver doesn't wait/retry like the
Mitsumi and Matsushita driver. Is this the expected behaviour? How can I
work around this smoothly? (a script with something like "mount ; sleep 5
; mount" sometimes works, but it throws error messages at me, if the first
mount was successfull).
-dirk
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