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Re: read errors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jens Axboe)
Thu Mar 16 02:06:32 2000
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:16:48 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Brad Cramer <res005vp@gte.net>
Cc: Linux SCSI <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <01f901bf8df7$d2a6ab80$e8210304@office.dsl.gtei.net>; from res005vp@gte.net on Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 03:56:51PM -0500
On Tue, Mar 14 2000, Brad Cramer wrote:
> I have a tekram dc395 scsi contorller and a pioneer DVD-Rom 303 and a Ricoh
> CD-RW drive installed with Redhat 6.1. I patched the kernel sources and
> recompiled with the tekram source (btw does anyone know if the source for
> this controller will be in any future kernel releases?) anyway my question.
> The CD-RW drive works fine when reading from or writing to, but the dvdirom
> has problems. if I copy say a tarfile from it and try to extract it it is
> corrupted. If I try to copy a large file it stopy and says something about
> resetting scsi bus. I tried to use it to read a disk I was makeing an image
> of to copy to a cd-r and I kept getting drive read errors. Anyway I am not
> real familiar with configuring scsi devices, could someone help me with what
> is going on here. Is it something I need to change in the scsi bios or is
> there some type of boot parameters I need to make sure the dvd-rom works
> right.
> Thanks for any help
> Brad Cramer
Could you try the latest and greatest 2.2.15-pre kernel? Some DVD
drives do not care much for the 6 byte commands we used to use for
CD-ROM like devices, this has been taken care of in the 2.2.15-pre
kernels.
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* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
* http://www.kernel.dk
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