On Wed, Feb 09 2000, Samuel M Umbach wrote:
> Sorry for the verbosity of this message, I just want to make sure you have
> all that you need. Also, that "limit=639186" is not dependant on which DVD
> I'm trying to read, but does change depending on the last CD I had mounted.
> That may be the root of my problem.
Hmm, makes it look like we're possibly missing a check media change
somewhere... I'll check up on that.
> In my original message I mentioned a program I wrote to count characters in
> a file. What I found was that if I mounted a CD-ROM, and it was 450 MB,
> then unmounted the CD and mounted and authenticated a DVD I could read 450MB
> from /dev/cdrom and then I received an EOF. This doesn't happen with the
> Toshiba drive so that's why I figured it must be in the hardware and was
> hoping a work around could be found.
Probably not a hardware bug, but perhaps just a hardware deviation ;)
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