Re: Bug in mounting routines of atapi-cdroms

Michel Catudal (bbcat@netonecom.net)
Sat, 12 Sep 1998 11:56:30 -0400

Justin A. Kolodziej wrote:
>
> rboos@student.uni-kl.de wrote:
>
> > I'm quite disappointed that my ATAPI-Cdroms can't be mounted right with the 2.1.120 kernel...the bug appears, when the drawer of the cdrom is open, and i then
> > try to mount this cdrom...of course with a cd on the drawer.
>
> > It only gives a message that the cdrom ist not ready....and then the mount hangs. But the thing that makes me worry about is that the mount-operation cannot
> > be aborted, even with kill -KILL.
>
> Hmmm... It works fine on my old Mitsumi 4X (!) CDROM. Typing "mount
> /cdrom" pulls the cd into the drive and mounts it, although it takes a
> while ;-)
>
> I and the rest of the list would appreciate it if you told us what
> CD-ROM you have. Perhaps there's something funny with these newfangled
> 32X and faster CD-ROMs they have out.
>
> Thanks...
>
> Justin A. Kolodziej
>

I've had a similar problem except that mine would work correctly at
times.
The first time I mounted the CDROM it would mount OK, the second time
it would not and I tried to kill it, I switched to a different shell
and tried again with no luck. I rebooted and tried again with similar
results. A few days later I mounted without a problem. I removed the
disk and then put it back realizing that I should unmount it before I
would attempt to mount another disk. The same shit came back. Every time
I would reboot in such a situation I would get a deadly crash with the
following disk check on both my ext2 partitions.
This was with 2.1.120 kernel as well.

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