FC3 disappointment: KsCD locks system; grip; CDROM in general.

[Kim Lux]

Someone over on slashdot has a similar error pattern to what I have seen
on my machine:

<paste>
I upgrade over the weekend, and now I can't access anything on the
secondary IDE controller without major problems - my load average when I
woke up this morning was over 230. This hardware has been perfectly
stable for 2 years.

hdc: dma timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
hdc: DMA timeout error
hdc: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 {Busy}
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdc: DMA disabled
ide1: reset: success
hdc: irq timeout: status-0x80 { Busy }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
ide: reset: success
ReiserFS: warning: is_tree_node: node level 19789 does not match to
the expected one 1 
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I'll bet money that his /dev/hdc is a cdrom.



On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 11:47 -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 09:36 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
> > There are actually 2 instances where my cdrom doesn't work:
> > 
> > a) opening with right click on the desktop
> > b) cdparanoia
> > 
> > I played a DVD on it last night with mplayer and it worked perfectly.
> > I just burned a CDR with k3b and it worked perfectly. 
> > 
> > Could we try getting it to open and unmount from the desktop and then
> > move to cdparanoia ?
> > 
> > I'll test the work around if you want.  Let me know. 
> 
> I expect they're entirely unrelated problems, and I don't know squat
> about mount and unmount...
> 
> -- 
>         Peter
> 
-- 
Kim Lux (Mr.)  Diesel Research Inc