[NTLUG:Discuss] SCSI problems

[Cameron]

* sjbaker1 at airmail.net [2000.05.07 22:04]:
: Cameron wrote:
: 
: > Why not help solve the problem?  Let the cdrecord developers know that
: > you get lockups with your drives.  Hopefully, with your input, they can
: > pinpoint the problem and fix it.  My 2 cents.  8)
: 
: You are absolutely right.
: <snip/>
: When I protested, he said I should have spent more time searching
: the web for a solution (evidently a week of messing around prior
: to posting to him wasn't enough)....Finally, he said that he'd
: "deduced" that it had to be a kernel fault (which seems pretty
: unlikely to me given the circumstances) - and that I should take
: the matter up with the kernel group.  That may or may not be good
: advice - but I wouldn't know where to start explaining what the
: problem is at the kernel level.  They'd (rightly) want a lot more
: details than I could provide.
: <snip/>
: -- 
: Steve Baker

It very well could be a kernel problem.  Even if you are using a root
priviledged program, you shouldn't be able to lock the system like that.
The kernel guys would love to have any information you can throw at them
about this issue.  At least report the lockup if nothing else.  They
shouldn't expect too much--that's why they are the kernel hackers and
not us.  :)  There is a REPORTING-BUGS file in the root directory of
your kernel sources.  If you can follow that and supply as much detail
as you can, I'm sure they would appreciate your report.  That makes 4
cents now...  8)
-- 
cameron
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