| From: | Andrew Crowe |
| Date: | 7 Jun 2001 at 23:30:08 |
| Subject: | Re: CD drawers |
Hi Everybody,
>> I've been tolerant, but this is starting to get on my nerves, and
>> was a prob using WB3.0 and 3.1
>>
>> When I'm browsing through the contents of AACDs (and the same thing
>> happens with AFCDs), sometimes the CD drive appears to lock up when
>> opening some drawers. This in turn locks up my system. If I wait,
>> it frees itself.
>
> I had this problem, as you say _extremely_ annoying. I have a
> Squirrel too. I think the problem is basically that read errors
> cause the Squirrel to lock out anything else 'til a good read
> occurs, which you knew anyway 8-) . On my system it occurred with WB
> (3.0->3.9), hardly ever CLI etc., and different filesystems helped
> but didn't stop lockups.
I think this is true of all CPU run SCSI devices? (IDE too?) DMA
devices (on accelerator cards etc.) shouldn't have this problem (my
BPPC doesnt anyway :)
> I got a massive improvement when I stopped using the Squirrel CD32
> emulator (i.e. cd.device). I removed cd.device and cddevice_config
> (sp?) from DEVS: and re-routed access through squirrelscsi.device. I
> had to actually remove the above as their presence allowed some
> access via cd.device.
Surely it shouldn't access the cd.device unless you've set it in your
CD0: device?
See ya :)
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