Dmitry Mityugov wrote:
On 10/9/05, Wayne Witzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello everybody,
I've just installed FreeBSD on my laptop (decided I wanted a more
developer-friendly computer). Aside from what appear to be the standard
newbie problems, every thing's gone remarkably well, except for this:
I have a CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive on my laptop. As a CDROM it had been
working perfectly well since the initial install about a week and a half
ago. It read CDs and DVDs without incident, and did so for hours and
hours (which it was forced to do because I've been listening to music
pretty much non-stop since I installed the system). The burner did not
work, but after the grueling process of opening up the FreeBSD handbook
and actually reading how to make it possible to burn CDs, that started
working as well. That is, I recompiled the kernel with the atapicam
module, changed permissions and set up links in the devfs.conf file in
/etc, and set the suid on cdrecord and cdrdao. Worked like a charm.
Burned my first CD, and it was beautiful. Then I think I went home.
Yesterday, while not burning any CDs at all, just listening to music
using kscd while I wrote perl script, my computer suddenly reboots.
...
This's the last day I am reading these archives. I believe you'll have
to find a better OS that suits your needs.
--
Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia
I ignore all messages with confidentiality statements
"We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"
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Mr. Mityugov,
I am certainly sorry if I've offended you in some way. It seemed to me
that I asked a perfectly valid question. I want to know what caused the
"unknown transfer phase" on my CDROM and how to prevent it from
happening again. I certainly didn't expect that would cause such anger
that it would warrant a nasty response.
As for whether FreeBSD suits my needs, it most certainly does. I've
been an administrator of Unix-like systems for about 7 years, starting
with Linux systems back in '97 and working my way up to IRIX a few years
ago. I've had FreeBSD installed and working on home systems in the
past, but it's been a while. Now, my work laptop had crashed (hard disk
death), and I was tired having to struggle to get Windows to do what I
wanted it to do and to keep it up and running more then a month at a
time. Took 6 months to make Windows work the way I wanted it to, when
it only took about a week to get FreeBSD working. In my experience,
Unix-like systems have *always* been easier to develop on, have always
been more stable, and are always faster. The fact that FreeBSD combines
these properties with the ease of the ports collection plus what I
thought was a community of involved people willing to help made it the
obvious choice.
If by "suits your needs" you meant "your need to listen to music", I
believe that's beside the point. The fact that acd0 had an unknown
transfer phase is troubling regardless of the task it was performing at
the time, especially considering that it was a kernel message. I will
almost certainly need to be able to read from my CDROM drive at some
point in the future for data transfer purposes, and a reboot during such
a read would at best cause the data transfer to fail, and at worst it
could corrupt data on the hard drive in an unrecoverable way.
I also apologize that my subject line wasn't 100% accurate. It should
have read "CDROM Unknown transfer *phase reboots* system". The word
"error" in the subject line was incorrect, and the assertion that it
caused a crash was just an assumption on my part. I was unable to find a
memory dump or any information that should have led me to believe it was
definitely a crash (and I still can't). Also, it's an assumption on my
part that the unknown transfer phase rebooted the system, but that was
the last entry in the log file and I though (and still think) that it's
the best indicator for what might have gone wrong. And the word
"reboot" may be incorrect as well. The system didn't go through the
shutdown process at all, it simply dropped to a POST.
If your objection was to the length of the description in my original
message, I though it would be prudent to provide as much detail as I
could about the steps I had gone through with my CDRW/DVDROM drive so
that those who might be interested in helping would have as much detail
as I could provide. I apologize if what I was hoping to be a playful
tone offended you, but since I tend to enjoy working on operating
systems like FreeBSD I tend to write in a manner that expresses that
feeling. I also apologize that part of my message, and my actual
question, was at the bottom of the message after the dmesg output. That
format was, I realize, not conducive to relaying my request in the most
efficient manner.
I have checked resources online to try and find a resolution to this
problem, but while I can find a several references to "unknown transfer
phase" and to the atapicam module, these references are not current and
apply to versions of FreeBSD that I'm not running For instance, a very
promising looking post about several patches to the atapicam module
referred to, I think, 5.2.1-CURRENT, and was from last year. I simply
don't know enough about FreeBSD to know if I should apply this patch, or
what steps I would have to take to recover from applying this patch if
it turned out to be a horrible mistake, aside from reinstalling the
operating system. Since I do not have the time right now to reinstall
FreeBSD (I'm working under a deadline at the moment and can only assume
that it would take at least two days to complete a reinstall), I was
hoping that somebody on this list would know something related to my
problem.
Now, if somebody out there can help me, I would very much appreciate it.
And, to you, Mr. Mityugov, I would just like to make sure that I'm not
being unclear. The apologizing tone of this message, and the subsequent
detail, is intended in part to correct what I realize may have been
mistakes that were made in the original message, but also to point out
that your response, in my opinion, was entirely inappropriate. If you
had any real objections to my message you should have pointed them out.
If you had no real objections and were simply venting your
frustrations, I do not feel that it was appropriate to take your
frustrations out on a self-professed newbie who had only come here
looking for help, basically with his hat in his hand.
Wayne
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