[UFO Chicago] Dead DVD does dubious dance during desired duties

[Jesse Becker]

--- Jordan Bettis <jordanb@hafd.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 11:59:43PM -0800, Jesse Becker
> wrote:
> > Mar 15 23:22:00 localhost hdc: irq timeout: status=0x58
> {
> > DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }

> SeekComplete errors have always signaled hardware trouble
> to me (usually a hard drive on its last leg). I don't
know
> if they could be kernel related (I imagine they could), 
> but when I see them, I immediently suspect the hardware.

Yeah, I've seen errors like this in relation to hard
drives, but never CD/DVDs.  I did track the error down to
the IDE subsystem (which makes sense).

That said, I think that I fixed it.  I disabled "IDE
Taskfile Access" (option CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL),
recompiled, rebooted, and things work.  Go figure. :-/


> > Thoughts? (or hardware recommendations?)
> 
> I have a Toshiba DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive I got from
> pricewatch for about $70.  I'm pretty happy with it 

Noted.

> The only really GAR thing about it is that Linux can't
> seem to handle SCSI DVD reading, and can't handle IDE CD 
> writing, so I have to have ide-cdrom and SCSI emulation 
> compiled seperately as modules, and havethe ide-cdrom in 
> the kernel when I'm writing, then switch to the the
> SCSI crap to write.

Icky.  However, I've heard that newer 2.5 kernels have
direct IDE CDRW support.  I don't have any hardware to
actually try this on though.

> Also, I think CDs are basically going to become obsolete
> within the next year or two, so you might want to invest 

Kinda like floppies are going to be obsolete 5 years ago?
<g>  There's still a lot a hardware out there that can't
boot off CD/Zip/USB, and floppies are it.  Of course, a lot
of Sun hardware can't boot from floppies either.

> you want to wait for the inevitable price drop when they
> become mainstream).

Yup.  Aren't we all cheapskates here?  :-)

--Jesse

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