Re: bG3+damaged CD=crash

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My blue-G3 hangs completely when I try to read a CDROM with some
errors. The whole system freezes and the only cure is reboot (no
logs, no errors, no panics, no oops). My older 7300 simply told
it couldn't read the disk. Is it a known bug ?

Maybe it's a bad CD?

Yes, it IS bad.

Chances are if it crashes one machine and another
won't read it, that the CD-ROM itself is bad, not the reader....
If you
purchased the CD (as opposed to burning it yourself), get in contact with
the LinuxPPC people and ask for an exchange...

Ehmm, no.  This CDROM is a backup copy of all junk I d/l from the net. It's
content is not important. What I mean is thet if I try to read a file Linux
creashes.

cp /mnt/cdrom/foobar.tgz /home/pochini/    ---> Linux hangs completely

Doing the same on the old 7300 w/ SCSI CD reader if tells me it can't read the
disk and continues working happily.

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Perhaps I'll buy a SCSI CD, I hate IDE junk.

Your 7300 (I think, and AppleSpec backs me up) has a SCSI CD-ROM, so it's
probably not the drives.

The problem is the pmac IDE software driver. Trying to read the same CDROM om
my PC gives an error and does not crash.


Bye.

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