Re: CDROM death

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>]

On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Carl Flippin wrote:

> Every time I try to access my cdrom under any distribution of Linux, 
> the entire system goes into limbo. My drive is connected to a PAS 16 
> and it appears that autoprobe is finding it since the light on the 
> drive flashes. The drive is a Toshiba 2x. Has anyone heard of this 
> problem before? Do I need to get a new CDROM drive?

I would strongly recommend that you compile the appropriate non-IDE driver
into your kernel and avoid autoprobing.  I had many problems with
autoprobing a Creative Labs CD-ROM.   
 
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