[paranoia] CDDA problem with drive.

Monty xiphmont at xiph.org
Thu Mar 9 02:44:32 PST 2000



> Everything goes fine for the first 500-600 sectors, then reading stops, 
> A minute or so later, the drive light goes off, and it hangs like that
> for awhile.  During that latter period, the IDE hard drive on that bus
> is inaccessible.  Eventually something (probably a device driver) resets
> the bus, and another 500-600 sectors get read; ad nauseum.  There is not
> a large CPU load during the hung periods.

> The drive works just fine for mounting filesystems.
> 
> Does any of this sound familiar?  I did not see it in the FAQ.

I'm not familiar with the behavior, no.  The timeout is troubling; the drive is
just vanishing into la la land...

Do you see any additional errors popping up in the system log?

Monty

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