Re: Replacment cdrom hangs system

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Date: 05/20/03

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    SCSI? Check termination, ID and Block size.

    Don Woodward

    "RCarney" <rcarne1@lsu.edu> wrote in message
    news:f9c3c94e.0305190547.264c420f@posting.google.com...
    > We have a XP1000 running Tru64 4.0. It's our last Unix machine for
    > now, and we are trying to keep it working. The original Toshiba cdrom
    > failed and was replaced with an EDO brand drive. The drive mounts OK;
    > the directory can be listed, and half the time files can be read
    > without problem. The rest of the time the system hangs (screen
    > freezes up) or crashes with "kernel memory error" message. This
    > happens in a PVWAVE application reading large tiff files and while
    > trying to copy the files to disk. I've checked /etc/fstab and found
    > just generic cdrom description.
    >
    > What am I doing wrong?
    >
    > Bob Carney, LSU, Oceanography

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