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CD problems..



Ze'ev Maor writes:
 > Hi,
 > 	I have an 8X-Octeck CD-Rom drive, hooked on to my EIDE controler. 
 > I compiled the kernel for standart EIDE support and although i can access 
 > the cd, it crashes my machine after a few minutes of cd usage (YES!!! 
 > Linux machines DO crash!!!). Any idea???? My machine is a 120Mhz Pentium 
 > with 16MB ram, PCI video etc. (quite standart equip.) so I c no reason 
 > for this kind of behavior. Please help.(BTW kernel ver is 1.2.13).

Check the CDROM howto & the HARDWARE howto to see if there are any
known problems with such a drive.

Check the READMEs in /usr/src/linux/block, as well as the comments in
the source code there to see if there are any notes regarding similar
hardware which does and/or doesn't work.


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