Re: Problems with ide-scsi in 2.3.xx

Thomas Molina (tmolina@home.com)
Sun, 5 Dec 1999 19:25:20 -0600 (CST)


On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Brian Capouch wrote:

> On the new kernels, when I let both drives become SCSI, things get nasty
> in a hurry. Attempts to copy CD data onto the hard drive result in a
> hard system lockup (no panics or messages logged) and the CD recording
> software also goes bonkers, getting all kids of SCSI errors during
> writes that make the whole process impossible.
>
> I only have these two IDE drives, but have seen reported that if one has
> an IDE CD drive and a genuine SCSI things are OK; the radical behavior
> is apparently triggered by the ide-scsi driver when it has to map
> multiple IDE devices into the SCSI chain.

Something else is going on with your system. I am using 2.3.29 with
ide-scsi and two CD drives, both on the secondary interface. One drive
is a regular CDROM drive, the other is a CD-RW.

Perhaps you have a hardware problem somewhere, possibly in the cable.

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