From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Aug 19 23:37:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE0937B400 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 23:37:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server1.one-dom.com (server1.one-dom.com [64.39.30.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F2BF43E6A for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 23:37:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kenshi@linuxorbit.com) Received: (qmail 27094 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2002 06:37:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO linuxorbit.com) (208.18.255.39) by 0004.info with SMTP; 20 Aug 2002 06:37:14 -0000 Message-ID: <3D61E3C9.5000906@linuxorbit.com> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 01:38:01 -0500 From: David LeCount User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020609 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: CD drive locking up Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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