Re: reading ide cdroms

Glenn Bily (gvb@gvb.cans.com)
Wed, 7 Aug 1996 13:46:44 -0400 (EDT)


> Melvin,

> I've had no such problems with between my EIDE drive and AHA2940 (no W)
> controller. You using an older IDE controller?

> --Glenn

> >Reading IDE cdroms, (doing cp's to my hard disk) I sometimes get
> > "IO error".
> >
> > What I'm doing is
> >
> > cp -v -R --update <cdrom> <destination>
> >
> > until its done (the IO error is inconsistent).
> >
> > I'm running 2.0...( I just tried to identical operation on another machine
> > and had no problem).
> >
> > I had the problem about 5 times in a row when I transfered from IDE CDROM
> > to scsi HD.
> >
> > When I transfered from IDE CDROM to IDE DISK, it worked (timing?)

> I had the same problem when I was mounting my SCSI HD and copying from
> the IDE HD to SCSI. Was using the AHA2940W driver. This was with
> 1.3.20-30 ish kernels. Solaris lives there now so I haven't tried it
> in a while. At the time it was a DOS fs (the SCSI).

> Melvin