Re: Strange (repeatable) hang when ripping a CD

2009-07-19 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:05:19 -0700, jw wrote: > Wow, thanks for the 'bad cable' idea. I've seen this error on systems where the manufacturer / composer had chosen a 40 pin cable because of "economy reasons". Hard diks and optical disc drives that could run as UMDA66 or even UDMA100 would show up

Re: Strange (repeatable) hang when ripping a CD

2009-07-19 Thread perryh
jw wrote: > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > Maybe wrong cable (40 pin)? The "device detached" message > > doesn't look good. First of all, it shouzld at least be UDMA66. > > Maybe defective drive due to failing TUR taskqueuing? > > Wow, thanks for the 'bad cable' idea. I re

Re: Strange (repeatable) hang when ripping a CD

2009-07-19 Thread jw
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > Maybe wrong cable (40 pin)? The "device detached" message > doesn't look good. First of all, it shouzld at least be UDMA66. > Maybe defective drive due to failing TUR taskqueuing? > Wow, thanks for the 'bad cable' idea. I replaced the (brand

Re: Strange (repeatable) hang when ripping a CD

2009-07-18 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:39:07 -0700, jw wrote: > Jul 18 22:25:46 lumpy kernel: acd0: WARNING - TEST_UNIT_READY > taskqueue timeout - completing request directly > Jul 18 22:26:25 lumpy kernel: acd0: FAILURE - device detached > Jul 18 22:26:25 lumpy kernel: acd0: WARNING - TEST_UNIT_READ

Strange (repeatable) hang when ripping a CD

2009-07-18 Thread jw
Hello, I am trying to use audio/ripit to rip an audio CD, but it results in a system hang (no panic) every time. Here is the tail of /var/log/messages when it happens: Jul 18 22:25:46 lumpy kernel: acd0: WARNING - TEST_UNIT_READY taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Jul 18 22:2