Messages in this thread | | | From | Stanislav Meduna <> | Subject | Re: IDE CDROM locks the system hard on media error | Date | Mon, 24 Dec 2001 22:28:25 +0100 (CET) |
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Hello,
> > I am using vanilla 2.4.17, hdc=ide-scsi, my drive is Mitsumi CR-4804TE, > > motherboard is Abit BP6 SMP, Intel PIIX4 IDE controller. > > Does turning off or restricting the DMA mode using either > one of these help? > hdparm -d0 -c1 /dev/hdc
This seems to help - I tried the most problematic CD several times, got the error messages, but it did not froze.
Thanks - I didn't even know that it defaults to DMA on CD-ROMs...
> hdparm -d 1 -X 34 /dev/hdc
This drive cannot do more than mdma1 (at least according to hdparm -i).
Regards -- Stano
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