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Re: Philips CD-R problems...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Garloff)
Tue Oct 21 18:59:50 1997

Date: 	Wed, 22 Oct 1997 00:53:37 +0200 (CEST)
From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@kg1.ping.de>
To: Alexander Papantonatos <beer@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971016212730.6570B-100000@mrbounce.compsoc.man.ac.uk>

On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Alexander Papantonatos wrote:

> I have philips CD-Recorder on an adaptech 2940. Every time I try to play
> back an audio-cd the driver (aic7xxx) resets the scsi bus. After 15 secs
> (the reset delay time) everything works fine until I try to stop the CD-R
> playing, then the same thing happens. Before the scsi bus is reset I get
> some error messages which probably refer to sense errors. I've connected
> the only the CD-R on the Adaptech2940 and I've also terminated it. So
> there shouldn't be any problems due to bad termination. When I try burn a
> blanck CD using cdwrite v2.0 it suddenly stops near the end of the
> proccess and I get again some sense error messages on my screen by the
> driver. The CD-R mounts perfectly normal about every data CD I've fedd it.
> What's going on ??????????????????????????????????????????????????
> 
> 					Thanks for "listening"

Some Philips CD-Rs have problems due to heat (CDR2000/2600). This is a
known problem and your dealer should exchange your CDR if necessary.
However, try to figure out, if there's another reason for that strange
behaviour. Maybe you can try another CDR from a friend ...

Kurt Garloff, Dortmund 
<K.Garloff@ping.de>


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