From: | Nuno Berneaud |
Date: | 7 Jun 2001 at 23:41:16 |
Subject: | Re: CD drawers |
Hello Andrew
On 07-Jun-01, you wrote:
>AC>> I've been tolerant, but this is starting to get on my nerves, and
>AC>> was a prob using WB3.0 and 3.1
>AC>>
>AC>> When I'm browsing through the contents of AACDs (and the same thing
>AC>> happens with AFCDs), sometimes the CD drive appears to lock up when
>AC>> opening some drawers. This in turn locks up my system. If I wait,
>AC>> it frees itself.
>AC>
>AC> I had this problem, as you say _extremely_ annoying. I have a
>AC> Squirrel too. I think the problem is basically that read errors
>AC> cause the Squirrel to lock out anything else 'til a good read
>AC> occurs, which you knew anyway 8-) . On my system it occurred with WB
>AC> (3.0->3.9), hardly ever CLI etc., and different filesystems helped
>AC> but didn't stop lockups.
>AC
>AC I think this is true of all CPU run SCSI devices? (IDE too?) DMA
>AC devices (on accelerator cards etc.) shouldn't have this problem (my
>AC BPPC doesnt anyway :)
I have a similar problem with my Pioneer 32x drive and I have a Blizzard 040/PPC.
It already existed when I had a Blizzard 030. My Yamaha CD-RW works fine though.
Bye,
Nuno
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