[1455] in linux-scsi channel archive
CD-ROM mounting problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerd Knorr)
Fri Feb 21 03:10:44 1997
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 20:44:45 +0100
From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <19970220192356.GU31169@infinity.milliByte.de>
>It seems, that the SCSI-CD-ROM driver doesn't wait/retry like the
>Mitsumi and Matsushita driver. Is this the expected behaviour?
The scsi driver works this way. Nobody changed this until now...
>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).
Just wait some seconds before you try to mount the CD-ROM. Or try something
like "while ! mount; do sleep 5; done"
Gerd
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