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From: J M Cerqueira Esteves <jmce@artenumerica.com>
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J M Cerqueira Esteves wrote:
>  vdeq qemu-system-x86_64 .. -hda .. -hdb .. -hdd .. -cdrom .. -boot d
> 
> On many CD reading attempts there were longer-than-normal waits, for
> which the kernel reported 
>   hdc: DSC timeout
[...]
> But it *didn't* happen when I tried the same installation process only
> using one virtual disk image  (-hda ...  -cdrom ...).

Also:

- had DSC timeouts with
    -hda ... -hdd ... -cdrom

- didn't have DSC timeouts with
    -hda ... -hdb ...  -cdrom

So the "culprit" of the cdrom timeouts seems to be -hdd ...
but why?

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