From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 13 09:50:02 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997B0106564A for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:50:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailinglist@diamondbox.dk) Received: from csmtp3.b-one.net (csmtp3.one.com [195.47.247.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 592F28FC18 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:50:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailinglist@diamondbox.dk) Received: from diamond. (83.73.227.176.ip.tele2adsl.dk [83.73.227.176]) by csmtp3.b-one.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 718D3100C63B; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:50:00 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4801D746.2000303@diamondbox.dk> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:49:58 +0200 From: Nikolaj Thygesen Organization: diamondbox.dk User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080329) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Isom References: <20080412214725.GC24224@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <2b7b4c61829cc700b4c6c7d76ffb448a@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2b7b4c61829cc700b4c6c7d76ffb448a@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Roland Smith , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Reading a Video CD from a DVD drive on 7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:50:02 -0000 Joshua Isom wrote: > > After some further testing, a vcd in the dvd drive will have the same > problem during booting the kernel(before init). After killing the > system and rebooting without the disc, trying to play the disc causes > messages like this repeatedly. I tried running "cdcontrol -f /dev/acd1 > eject" and it hung. I tried "atacontrol reinit ata3" and "atacontrol > detach ata3" and those hung as well. It's an sata dvd-rw drive over > atapi. Here's the error being reported by the kernel. > > acd1: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying (1 retry left) > acd1: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying (0 retries left) > acd1: FAILURE - READ_BIG timed out > > Mplayer just triggers the problem. I imagine if I ran amd I'd have the > same type of problem, or any program that tried to read from acd1. > Other than locking up tty's and not being able to shut down, the > system's still usable, aside from the disc inserted during boot of > course. > I get the exact same symptoms when booting with an audio cd in the drive. I haven't done too much about it as I rarely stuff such things in my box, but the cd/dvd part of fbsd7 still appears somewhat flakey. I see the "INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST" below on several boxes. On this particular machine "atapicd" is commented out in its i386-based custom kernel config, but it makes no difference as far as this warning/error is concerned. FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #4: Sun Mar 9 21:39:39 CET 2008 nikolaj@diamond.diamondbox.dk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DIAMOND Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (2405.47-MHz 686-class CPU) .... unknown: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 cd0 at ata4 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 cd0: Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device cd0: 3.300MB/s transfers cd0: cd present [2070890 x 2048 byte records] br - N :o)