Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 01:38:01 -0500 From: David LeCount <kenshi@linuxorbit.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: CD drive locking up Message-ID: <3D61E3C9.5000906@linuxorbit.com>
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Ahoy there. I'm having a rather strange problem. Whenever I do certain stuff on my Goldstar cd-rw drive, it locks up. One thing that'll lock it up is "cat /cdrom/blah > /dev/null". It'll cat the whole file and then lock up at the end. What I mean by lock up is that FreeBSD will seemingly lose communication with the cd-rw and any program that tries to access /cdrom (including umount) will lock up in a state that even kill -9 won't take care of. The drive itself will show its read light for a while, and then it'll go off. But the drive still won't open up. The only way to fix it is to reboot. It's really a nuissance. I was wondering if anyone knows a way to fix the problem on the fly without having to reboot, and also if this is a known bug, unknown bug, or other. I'm reluctant to submit a bug report until I hear what others have to say. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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