CDROM Unknown Transfer Error crashes system

Dmitry Mityugov dmitry.mityugov at gmail.com
Sun Oct 9 11:57:34 PDT 2005


On 10/9/05, Wayne Witzke <wwitzke at sstire.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I've just installed FreeBSD on my laptop (decided I wanted a more
> developer-friendly computer).  Aside from what appear to be the standard
> newbie problems, every thing's gone remarkably well, except for this:
>
> I have a CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive on my laptop.  As a CDROM it had been
> working perfectly well since the initial install about a week and a half
> ago.  It read CDs and DVDs without incident, and did so for hours and
> hours (which it was forced to do because I've been listening to music
> pretty much non-stop since I installed the system).  The burner did not
> work, but after the grueling process of opening up the FreeBSD handbook
> and actually reading how to make it possible to burn CDs, that started
> working as well.  That is, I recompiled the kernel with the atapicam
> module, changed permissions and set up links in the devfs.conf file in
> /etc, and set the suid on cdrecord and cdrdao.  Worked like a charm.
> Burned my first CD, and it was beautiful.  Then I think I went home.
>
> Yesterday, while not burning any CDs at all, just listening to music
> using kscd while I wrote perl script, my computer suddenly reboots.
...

This's the last day I am reading these archives. I believe you'll have
to find a better OS that suits your needs.

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Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia
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