On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, G. Crimp wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a NEC 4 disk cdrom drive. Sometimes after using xmcd, the
> drive seems to get all balled up. It seems to get confused about whether
> there are any CD's in any of the 4 slots and just keeps cycling through them
> looking. When it gets in this state, I can't play any more CD's
>
> If I quit xmcd, remove the audio cd and replace with a iso9660 cd, I
> can't mount the CD. I get the "bad super-block, device busy or wrong fs
> type" message. If I switch to single user mode the error message is more
> verbose when trying to mount the cdrom drive:
[snip]
>
> I'm wondering if anyone knows what gives, and better yet, how I can
> reset the device to regain control. I've tried "rm /dev/hdb" followed by
> "mknod -m 771 /dev/hdb b 3 64" but that does't help. The only solution I've
> found thus far is to reboot ( :¬( )
>
I had similar problems without using xmcd and thought that my CDROM was
faulty until a friend suggested that I clean the cdrom with a cleaning
disk - and it worked.
Maybe it is not your problem, but if it is, it is not so serious at all.
Johann
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