Silent errors when reading CDs

2004-07-09 Thread Jean-Sebastien Roy
Hi ! I'm currently using FreeBSD 4.10 on an HP D530 SFF. The system is perfectly stable except for the following problem I'm unable to understand : When I mount a cdrom (mount /cdrom), then calculate the MD5 hash of a big file on a CD (md5 /cdrom/bigfile), the results are often random: unmountin

how to enable automatic acoustic management ?

2004-02-12 Thread Jean-Sebastien Roy
Hi ! I use FreeBSD 4.9, an on my computer, the CD-ROM seems to support "automatic acoustic management" (see results of atacontrol cap below). How can I enable this feature (which seems disabled by default ?) Is there an utility to do it under FreeBSD ? Thank you very much in advance, Regards,