Re: odd cdrom behavior after using cdparanoia

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, PC^God wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 
> > Anything is possible, but at this point I would be checking termination,
> > cable tightness, and if the controller was hard addressed to a conflicting
> > address or something. I've been running a mix of SCSI and ATAPI CD-R and
> > CD-RW, and other than a burning problem in 2.4.19, they all seem to work
> > fine. There might be an issue with your particular driver, but I'd also
> > consider hardware and config issues at this point, since you can fix those
> > a lot faster.
> 
> I just moved some hardware around, moved the cd drive from the secondary
> master to the primary slave. It actually seems to be getting worse. Been
> having trouble burning CDs as well, before and after moving the hardware
> around. I think I'll try finding another IDE cable and going back to my
> saved 2.4.17 kernel in which I didn't have any problems. Somehow, I don't
> think either of those things are going to work though. This drive is
> pretty old (2x write was top of the line back then!) so I'll probably end
> up replacing it soon. Thanks for the help all.

I have an old Philips 2600 still in service. It was getting less and less
reliable until Joerg Shilling told me how to clean and lube the slide
mechanism. Problem gone, it's slow but stable. That system has an ATAPI
CD-RW as well, the SCSI gets used little unless I want to start two copies
and go to lunch.

-- 
bill davidsen <[email protected]>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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