On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Joerg Schilling <joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It seems that the command >> >> readcd -c2scan >> >> fails on both of my drives for all media types - retail CDs, copies of >> CDs on CR-R and CD-RW. It always hangs. It hangs at different places >> if I rerun it. > > If it fails with different drives from different manufacturers, try to > run if from a differnt OS in order to verify whether you are a victim of > a long term Linux kernal bug that modifies SCSI commands on their way to the > drive. > > Jörg >
Expand please. Run it on a different OS? The machine is dual-boot Gentoo/XP but your site doesn't seem to have an updated Windows version. (Unless it's not in the win32 directory.) I presume you did not mean 'different kernel' as your assertion is that the bug is long-standing and therefore will be in other kernels. How do I run in another OS? Build recent source under Windows and somehow run it there? I'm up for trying that but I'm not a developer, don't have a Win 32 compiler, and wouldn't know where to start. Does gcc run under Windows? Could I compile in Linux for Windows and test the drive under Windows that way? Thanks! - Mark
