From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39679C6C.CC794B77@denise.shiny.it> Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 17:26:04 -0400 From: Giuliano Pochini MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nelson Abramson CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: bG3+damaged CD=crash References: <396499F3.491EA41@erols.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > > My blue-G3 hangs completely when I try to read a CDROM with some > > errors. The whole system freezes and the only cure is reboot (no > > logs, no errors, no panics, no oops). My older 7300 simply told > > it couldn't read the disk. Is it a known bug ? > > Maybe it's a bad CD? Yes, it IS bad. > Chances are if it crashes one machine and another > won't read it, that the CD-ROM itself is bad, not the reader.... > If you > purchased the CD (as opposed to burning it yourself), get in contact with > the LinuxPPC people and ask for an exchange... Ehmm, no. This CDROM is a backup copy of all junk I d/l from the net. It's content is not important. What I mean is thet if I try to read a file Linux creashes. cp /mnt/cdrom/foobar.tgz /home/pochini/ ---> Linux hangs completely Doing the same on the old 7300 w/ SCSI CD reader if tells me it can't read the disk and continues working happily. > > Perhaps I'll buy a SCSI CD, I hate IDE junk. > > Your 7300 (I think, and AppleSpec backs me up) has a SCSI CD-ROM, so it's > probably not the drives. The problem is the pmac IDE software driver. Trying to read the same CDROM om my PC gives an error and does not crash. Bye. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/