Thanks. That's seems to have worked. I was able to blank a cdrw. James
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 14:02, John P Verel wrote: > On 08/08/03 13:20 -0400, James Pifer wrote: > > Hi. I have a CDRW drive on RH8. Been working great for quite some time. > > I usually use the webmin interface(I believe just makes calls to > > cdrecord) to burn my CDs. I couple weeks ago I tried to burn a CD and > > the system kept locking up part way through the burn. I assumed it was > > something with the structure I was trying to burn and didn't have toime > > to troubleshoot at the time. > > > > I had not used it since then and tried to blank a cdrw today with: > > cdrecord blank=fast dev=0,1,0 > > > > Same thing. After 30 seconds or so the monitor goes blank and the CAPS > > and SCROLL lights on my keyboard start flashing. System is not > > accessible either on the console or from other machines. I don't see > > much in the message log around the time of the crash. I believe these > > are the relevant lines: > > Aug 8 11:40:04 tweety kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : > > pid 56316753, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Request Sense 00 00 00 40 00 > > Aug 8 11:40:34 tweety kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : > > pid 56317186, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 > > 00 > > Aug 8 11:45:47 tweety syslogd 1.4.1: restart. > > I had exactly these symptoms. This is kernel panic. I'm imagining > you're running RH9, with the version of cdrecord that came with it (I > don't remember). Upgrade to cdrecord-2.0-11.1, on rpmfind and be sure > to run cdrecord with the 'dao' option. > > John > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
