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Re: 2.0.33: sr not ready status
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Johannes)
Fri Mar 6 02:58:11 1998
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 20:54:19 -0600 (CST)
From: Robert Johannes <rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu>
To: Ulrich Windl <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <182CE0BA7EB4@rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de>
I think the problem is that some cdroms (and perhaps most of them) don't
know how to reporrt "drive not ready" when in actuality the drive isn't
ready. May be it is the cdrom end that needs some twicking with, I don't.
Just a suggestion.
robert
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wonder if it's possible to wait a few (about 5) seconds for the
> drive to become ready if a CD drive indicated "not ready".
>
> Currently I get about three messages very quickly and the operations
> fails.
>
> In HP-UX, a UNIX I know rather well, the OS will wait several seconds
> for CD-ROMs, DAT tapes loading, disc drives spinning up, etc.
>
> I can't see why it is not possibly in Linux, or is it just
> inoperational, and nobody has noticed it.
>
> In case it matters: I'm using an PCI AHA2940 (single ended, fast).
>
> Regards,
> Ulrich
> P.S. I'm not subscribed here
>
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