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Re: iso9660/CD ROM bug?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Janssen reading Linux mailingl)
Sun May 28 18:54:43 1995

To: huny@ugcs.caltech.edu (Dragon Slayer)
Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 13:13:46 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199505280717.AAA08351@sloth.ugcs.caltech.edu> from "Dragon Slayer" at May 28, 95 00:17:55 am
Reply-To: linux-vger@wab-tis.rabobank.nl
From: linux@sys3.pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen reading Linux mailinglist)

According to Dragon Slayer:
> There seems to be a bug in either the ISO 9660 file system code or the
> cdrom driver code. In particular, things do not seems to work if there
> are more then one CD-ROM on a system. 
> 
> The problem is mounting a SCSI CD-ROM and a non-scsi (Mitsumi LU005)
> results in the non-scsi CD appearing to be corrupted. Directories would
> contain strange characters and/or become incomplete. The SCSI CD-ROM
> appears to be work okay. As a further check, playing audio on the SCSI
> CD-ROM suddenly stops when attempts are made to play audio on the non-SCSI
> CD-ROM. This seems to suggest that the  CD drivers are at fault.
> 
> The CD-ROMs work fine if they are the only ones, but not together.
> 
> What I would like to know is:
> 	* Is this a known problem? 

I have 6 SCSI CD-ROMs and it works without problems, so I certainly
would rule out the ISO 9660 code.  I did not try playing audio, though.
Maybe a problem with the Mitsumi driver?

Rob

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