Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 22:57:33 +0400 From: Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com> To: Wayne Witzke <wwitzke@sstire.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CDROM Unknown Transfer Error crashes system Message-ID: <b7052e1e0510091157x71a8baf0t149bd6faf70dc1f8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4348ACCD.7050203@sstire.com> References: <4348ACCD.7050203@sstire.com>
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On 10/9/05, Wayne Witzke <wwitzke@sstire.com> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I've just installed FreeBSD on my laptop (decided I wanted a more > developer-friendly computer). Aside from what appear to be the standard > newbie problems, every thing's gone remarkably well, except for this: > > I have a CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive on my laptop. As a CDROM it had been > working perfectly well since the initial install about a week and a half > ago. It read CDs and DVDs without incident, and did so for hours and > hours (which it was forced to do because I've been listening to music > pretty much non-stop since I installed the system). The burner did not > work, but after the grueling process of opening up the FreeBSD handbook > and actually reading how to make it possible to burn CDs, that started > working as well. That is, I recompiled the kernel with the atapicam > module, changed permissions and set up links in the devfs.conf file in > /etc, and set the suid on cdrecord and cdrdao. Worked like a charm. > Burned my first CD, and it was beautiful. Then I think I went home. > > Yesterday, while not burning any CDs at all, just listening to music > using kscd while I wrote perl script, my computer suddenly reboots. ... This's the last day I am reading these archives. I believe you'll have to find a better OS that suits your needs. -- Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia I ignore all messages with confidentiality statements "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"
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