On Thursday 04 June 2009 22:39:50 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thursday 04 June 2009 21:13:39 Mark Knecht wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Joerg Schilling > >> > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Mark Knecht <[email protected]> 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. > > Thanks for the explanation. No option for me to do any of the above > ideas. Available: > > Gentoo 64-bit > Gentoo 32-bit > Win XP > Win Vista > FreeDOS > > No idea how to build for the last 3.
*BSD in a vm? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
