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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: ATAPI 4x cdrom hang
To: swise@austin.ibm.com (Jean-Steveau Wise)
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 22:40:08 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <9602030502.AA28851@vikings.austin.ibm.com> from "Jean-Steveau Wise" at Feb 2, 96 11:02:10 pm
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've got a 133MHZ Intel system (Packard Bell) with a 4x IDE ATAPI
> cdrom.  FreeBSD 2.1 finds the device and I can read from it (ls -sailR
> will show everything on the cd mounted).  However, whenever I try to
> transfer anything off it, the entire system hangs.  I'd be happy to get

can you describe 'hangs?'

can you still get into the kernel debugger?
(have you got the kernel debugger in the kernel? (options KDB))

if you can get into the KDB that gives us something to work with..
does it still ping?
does <ALT><F8> still beep (assuming you haven't got a login on screen 8..


> you some sort of system dump if you need it.  I'm hoping this problem's
> been fixed already?
> 
> Feel free to be technical with me...I'm a kernel hacker for IBM/AIX and
> I'm familiar with the BSD-based kernel code (mostly networking).
>