On Thursday 04 June 2009 21:13:39 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Joerg Schilling > > <joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > > Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It seems that the command > >> > >> readcd -c2scan > >> > >> fails on both of my drives for all media types - retail CDs, copies of > >> CDs on CR-R and CD-RW. It always hangs. It hangs at different places > >> if I rerun it. > > > > If it fails with different drives from different manufacturers, try to > > run if from a differnt OS in order to verify whether you are a victim of > > a long term Linux kernal bug that modifies SCSI commands on their way to > > the drive. > > > > Jörg > > Expand please. > > Run it on a different OS? The machine is dual-boot Gentoo/XP but your > site doesn't seem to have an updated Windows version. (Unless it's not > in the win32 directory.)
He likely means "Use a Unix that is not Linux. One of the *BSDs perhaps" Unlike most folk here, Linux is to Joerg just another OS. For best response, do the test on Solaris. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
