Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 84414
Philips PCRW4816 hangs after writing CD
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:51:17 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: Hi, I've tried to use my new PCRW4816 under RedHat 8.0, using cdrecord. It works fine EXCEPT when it should finish writing -- then it hangs the machine (or rather, makes the machine _extremely_ unresponsive but not totally dead). Looking at logs, it seems the drive is timeouting all SCSI commands and cdrecord for some reason can not progress. Interestingly, the same thing in -dummy mode works just fine. I am using -eject This problem need a power recycle to clear, a soft boot isn't enough, which suggests to me that the drive itself is at fault. It seems to have firmware version P1.3 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert blank CD 2. cdrecord speed=24 -eject -data foobar.iso 3. Actual Results: CD is written OK, but then machine hangs. Need power cycle to recognize CD drive again. Expected Results: Finish writing ok. Additional info:
seem to be the kernel
I tried this again, setting recording speed to 16x -- and it works fine. I had previously worked from the assumption that lower speeds are more reliable and tried 4x. Go figure...
Argh! Whatever, anyway, speed 16x seems to be working.
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