Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:30:42 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Chris Moline" <ugly-daemon@home.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: spontaneous reboots: how common in general? Message-ID: <002a01c1165d$474728e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010726081732.A83353@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Chris Moline >Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 7:18 AM >To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: spontaneous reboots: how common in general? > > >On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 10:45:11PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> I'll bet your running an IDE cdrom right? >[...snip...] >> Most likely what the problem is that the CDROM drive that you were >> attempting to read the CD from used a non-standard error return >> code that the ATAPI driver doesen't have in it's list. This has been >> discussed before on this list. There's ways that you can identify >> this and submit it to the ATAPI developer who can add it in to the >> driver so that instead of panicing, the system just comes back with >> an error message. >May I ask how one does this?? > You can start by #define DEBUG in /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/atapi.c but in my opinion a more fruitful method is to contact the developer and ask if you can box up your CD and ship it to him for a few months for him to see what's going on. >While I am at it can one read an unfixated disk?? official line is "only on a cd burner" but I'm sure that some non-burner drives could with enough work. >In windows I use the iomega software that came with the drive and it >seems to be >able to read unfixated disks. Or am I missing something?? > Ask Soren Schmidt if there's anything in the acd driver that will keep you from reading unfixated disks. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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