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Re: My Plextor locks up under Linux. Why?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Metz)
Mon Jun 12 07:59:31 1995
To: Drew Eckhardt <drew@poohsticks.org>
CC: mgleaves@venus.mcs.com, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 11 Jun 1995 21:36:19 CST."
<199506120336.VAA10172@chopper.poohsticks.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 07:03:35 -0500
From: Craig Metz <cmetz@sundance.itd.nrl.navy.mil>
In message <199506120336.VAA10172@chopper.poohsticks.org>, Drew Eckhardt writes
:
>In message <Pine.3.89.9506111636.A456-0100000@Venus.mcs.com>, mgleaves@Venus.m
>cs.com writes:
>>Does anyone else have a problem with their Plextor 4Plex CD-ROM drive
>>locking up under Linux?
>TEXEL had _serious_ bugs of every sort in their firmware - drives
>didn't disconnect and reconnect correctly, didn't handshake correctly,
>etc.
If it is a firmware bug, then it'll show up when tested under a
certain glorified bootstrap loader, won't it? Wouldn't it seem reasonable to
test the same behavior under another OS before condemning Texel/Plextor?
(For whatever worth, I have a 4PleX bought just after they were released and
a 53c810 and have never seen this behavior at all)
-Craig
