While i wouldnt rule out SCSI[-emulation] conflicts out, this problem has always been with this box, since i've had it (almost a year now). At first i only had the scsi cdrom in it. It was usable, but did crash my box on occasions (ie: after my 38days of uptime, grrr). Then when i added the scsi burner, the scsi cdrom became more troublesome. I could sorta use the burner to read CDs, but burning them would crash right after fixating (you'd be surprised at how many cds i've burnt though :P ), but the burner would still crash the box randomly. Now that i added the ide burner, in hopes that it was a scsi problem, well it just made matters worse again. The only other scsi device that i have in there is my scsi harddrive. And that's never caused me problems that i know of. The fact that it's totally random really makes me wonder. I cant reproduce it at will (without burning, as thats a garanteed crash). I've noticed though, that when it crashes, its a strange behavior. What happens is that the box is ok, until it tries to read the harddrive. I can move my mouse on my current window, but as soon as i move it out of the window onto another one, or try minimizing a window, the box freezes, no longer responds to pings, so i cant even ssh to it. But i might try connecting just one device at a time, see how that works out. Thanks Richard Fillion rick@rhix.ods.org On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 09:54, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:39:09AM -0600, rick@rhix.ods.org wrote: > > I have a scsi cdrom, a scsi cdrw, and an ide cdrw on my Digital Server > > 3305 (same as an AlphaServer800 i think). All three devices work. The > > CDRW used to work 100% in my Pentium, the scsi cdrom i can use perfectly > > to install debian, and the scsi cdrw, well, that one i cant prove its > > working perfectly. > > > > I get the same behavior out of all three, which is: random crashes when > > using them. I mount a CD, then its wait and see. sometimes it'll work > > flawlessly, othertimes mount will not even return, and the box just > > stops responding alltogether. I can burn a CD fine with both CDRWs, but > > the box crashes right after fixating the disk. Come to think of it...i > > think i can only burn with the scsi cdrw, the ide one crashes before > > burning. > > > > What i have figured out: > > -it cant be a scsi problem cause i have the same problem with ide > > -it cant be an ide problem cause i have the same problem with scsi > > Well, you are driving the IDE-CDRW over SCSI-emulation ? Could you > simply test one device after another to see if maybe some > SCSI(-Emulation) conflict arises, i.e. connect only the CD-ROM, > mount/unmount/read it for a while, then only one of the CD-RWs, burn > CD's and simmilar for the IDE-CDRW. For the first two tests you might > use a kernel without SCSI emulation (or if this is as a module, don't > load it). > > These are the only suggestions I can give you to try. > > Greetings > > Helge > > -- > Helge Kreutzmann, Dipl.-Phys. Helge.Kreutzmann@itp.uni-hannover.de > gpg signed mail preferred gpg-key: finger kreutzm@rigel.itp.uni-hannover.de > 64bit GNU powered http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~kreutzm > Help keep free software "libre": http://www.freepatents.org/
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