Re: Hard Crash w/ BusLogic/CDROM

David Ford (david@killerlabs.com)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 23:38:31 -0800 (PST)


On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Eric F. Sorton wrote:
> My system consistently crashes while accessing the CD-ROM. The crash
> is a "hard-crash", no messages are displayed to the console and no
> keyboard input is accepted after the crash. SysRq does not respond
> nor does Cntl-Alt-Del. Only recovery is to power cycle the machine.
> I've tried all recent 2.2.X kernels as well as 2.0.36 and the
> problem repeats in all situations.

> The crash occurs at boot, 50-70% of the time, during the driver
> initialization. Otherwise, the machine will crash whenever I access
> the CD-ROM once booted. I also boot and use NT; the system is
> stable in NT and I have had no problems with the SCSI subsystem or
> CD-ROM while running in NT. Since it works with NT, can hardware
> problems be eliminated?

interesting, it used to only do it at boot. i just pulled the cdrom out
while it was booting then put it back in.

-d

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