[NTLUG:Discuss] cdrecord hanging problem

Cameron hrothgar at endor.hsutx.edu
Fri Dec 29 17:29:28 CST 2000


* wsenn at postfuture.com [2000.12.28 09:16]:
: 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...
: <snip/>
: 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:
: <snip/>
: cdrecord 1.9
: <snip/>
: Adaptec 1542
: Ricoh 1420C with 512K Cache

Well, i won't consider it normal, but it happens...

You have two options: [1] go back to 1.8 and forget about it or [2] try
to figure out what's causing it.

It's somewhat appropriate that my random signature turned out to be what
it is because I would go with option [2].  First thing to do is get the
latest bleeding-edge (alpha) version of cdrecord.  Try to do a -scanbus
and see what happens.  If it locks up, go to the following page and read
up on what to do to report the problem to the author.

http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/problems.html

If you can make the latest development version crater, the author will
definately want to know about it.

Anyway, that's my 2 cents.  If I get time, I'll upgrade and see what
happens on my box (completely different hardware though).
-- 
cameron
[ Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. ]



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