On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 18:32, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 12:21, Todd Lyons wrote: > > Alex Bennee wrote on Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 06:02:25PM +0000 : > > > I've been finding problems with supermount'ed CDROMs where it seems to > > > forget media is inserted - or at least cannot find *some* of the files > > > on it. This usually manifests itself by XMMS skipping a load of tracks > > > > Yup. > > > > umount /mnt/cdrom > > mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom > > > > IOW, manually mount and unmount them. > > > > Blue skies... Todd > > Todd, > > As I've been following this problem and in one and only one case do I > have this problem I've noticed that it seems to be hardware specific. > I've got 4 boxes running 9.0 without problems of this sort. 2 with > samsung CD's one with a mitsumi slimline and One with an Asus CDRW. > But, on my laptop with the compaq cdrom... it happens. What I'm > wondering is if it is hardware related specifically to older or specific > brands of cd drives? Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree... >
Yes I have found this to be true as well, this works for me, as I am running crap hardware.. First I pass ide=nodma using lilo and the append line, then when booting up I use hdparm just to switch DMA on just for the hard drive "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda" and this seems to work quiet well.. I have tried other tricks through LILO like ide1=nodma but this not work, and the fault remained.. only through totally switching off the IDE DMA and switching back on for the hard seems to work me... Has anyone else tried anything like this? Cheers Mark
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