>From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>I have an Alpha 164SX with Teac CD-W58E. The burner works nicely, but I
>have a bit of a problem: if I (for whatever reason, mostly by mistake)
>abort the burning process (by hitting CTRL-C), the writer remains locked.

>The LED light keeps on blinking, just as it does while buring, but I
>cannot eject the media, nor can I reset the SCSI bus ('cdrecord -reset'
>fails with a core dump - as it always does). Even more, 'cdrecord
>-scanbus' reports CD-W58E to be a CD-ROM instead of CD-RW.

Don't use outdated versions!

http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/problems.html

>This state remains until reboot, which is bad as I cannot reboot my
>machine too often (it's resources are somewhat shared).

>Can I change anything about my Linux kernel configuration, or anything
>else (apart from switching to SCSI,  which I cannot) to change that
>behaviour?

Write to the Linux kernel team and request support for SCSI reset in the
kernel. 

J�rg

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