I've read and written from 2 atapi cd drives it works but things that
should be in certain sectors like bootable cd's can be messed up while
being read I guess this is due to cheap hardware but if you read from a
good cd drive like another cd burner it will be ok. I would write from the
hard disks though.
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Ron Flory wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > use both ATAPI cdroms at the same times usually results in total
> > > system lockup. My question is this: Even though ATAPI may or may
> > > not support disconnection (ala scsi), should I be able to read from
> > > (or write-to) a cdrom while reading from the other, without worrying
> > > about the certain crash, reset, and fsck that follows ?
> >
> > Yes you should. ATAPI has no disconnect so its slower but it shouldnt
> > die.
>
> Thats what I thought, however I thought I'd raise the issue in case
> somebody else has seen it as well.
>
> I've tried three different cd-readers (noname 24X, 40X and 50X drives),
> and the CDRW (HDC) is a HP-7200i. I'm also using the (in)famous VIA3
> chipset. I had to back-off on some dma settings etc. to keep things
> stable on hda/hdb under 2.2.14.
>
> Thanks-
>
> -
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
>
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Feb 23 2000 - 21:00:22 EST