[NTLUG:Discuss] cdrecord hanging problem

[Kyle Davenport]

hmmm...no other comments.  Well, no, that is not a normal thing to do.  We mess
with drivers and kernel mods only at the bleeding edge, before they become
standard.  I think it is embarassing of the cdrecord people that they wouldn't
be writing their software to support the standard.  I have heard about this
behavior before for cdrecord and suggest it's time to look for other software.

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"Will Senn" <wsenn at postfuture.com> on 12/28/2000 09:15:28 AM

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Subject:  [NTLUG:Discuss] cdrecord hanging problem



Hi all,

I recently upgraded my cdrecord from version 1.8 to 1.9.  After having done
so, whenever I ran cdrecord -scanbus, it hung the entire computer (keyboard,
mouse, video, etc.)  I was able to get things to work again by downloading a
special version of the generic scsi device from the cdrecord website and
recompiling the kernel/modules.  Note that this was not a suggestion on the
part of the cdrecord website, they happened to have a link to the sg source
that they claimed was a better match, so I took the chance and used that
version.

My question is this:
Is this a normal sort of thing to have to do, or did I miss some simpler
solution (my background is nt, not linux)?

The platform:
Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4
Linux Kernel 2.2.14
Kde 1 & 2.0.1
Helix Gnome (Day before yesterday)
cdrecord 1.9

Intel Pentium 200 MMX
128 MB Ram
Adaptec 1542
Ricoh 1420C with 512K Cache

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