On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday 04 June 2009 21:13:39 Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Joerg Schilling >> >> <joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: >> > Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> It seems that the command >> >> >> >> readcd -c2scan >> >> >> >> fails on both of my drives for all media types - retail CDs, copies of >> >> CDs on CR-R and CD-RW. It always hangs. It hangs at different places >> >> if I rerun it. >> > >> > If it fails with different drives from different manufacturers, try to >> > run if from a differnt OS in order to verify whether you are a victim of >> > a long term Linux kernal bug that modifies SCSI commands on their way to >> > the drive. >> > >> > Jörg >> >> Expand please. >> >> Run it on a different OS? The machine is dual-boot Gentoo/XP but your >> site doesn't seem to have an updated Windows version. (Unless it's not >> in the win32 directory.) > > He likely means "Use a Unix that is not Linux. One of the *BSDs perhaps" > > Unlike most folk here, Linux is to Joerg just another OS. For best response, > do the test on Solaris. >
Thanks for the explanation. No option for me to do any of the above ideas. Available: Gentoo 64-bit Gentoo 32-bit Win XP Win Vista FreeDOS No idea how to build for the last 3. Cheers, Mark
