1 of 2 CDROM freezes

[Amar Kumar Padhi]

Hi,
I have got two CDROM drives on my PC  (99 make, P2, 512MB, dualboot- 
win2k/fedora core1). CDROM1 (read/write) gets recognized but CDROM (read 
only) just hangs on being accessed.

ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 40X MAXIMUM (hangs!)
Samsung CD-R/RW SW-224B.       (ok!)

One gets recognized as SCSI drive (samsung, about 2 years old) and is 
operational.The other drive gets recignized as IDE (ATAPI, about 5 years 
old). Anything I try simply does not work. The system just hangs and I need 
to restart. Even saying "eject cdrom" hangs the system.

When I boot with GNOME, it just hangs in the startup screen (on the CDROM 
icon). KDE allowed me to get in and check out the drives from the shell. I 
am lost as to what needs to be done next. Any help would be great guys! 
Thanks!

from dmesg:
hdb: ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 40X MAXIMUM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
blk: queuec040cfc0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0Xffffffff)
hdb: Disabling (U)DMA for ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE.

from /etc/fstab:
/dev/cdrom     /mnt/cdrom      udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1    /mnt/cdrom1     udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0


from /etc/sysconfig/hwconf:
class: CDROM
bus: IDE
detached: 0
device: hdb
driver: ignore
desc: "ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 40X MAXIMUM"
-
class: CDROM
bus: SCSI
detached: 0
device: scd0
driver: ignore
desc: "Samsung CD-R/RW SW-224B"
host: 0
id: 0
channel: 0
lun: 0
generic: sg0

Thanks!
amar

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