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Received: from scout (scout.SJSU.EDU [130.65.86.56]) by sundance.sjsu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.4) with SMTP id BAA00886 for <executor@nacm.com>; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 01:50:33 -0700 Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 01:50:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Chad Page <page0588@sundance.sjsu.edu> X-Sender: page0588@scout To: executor@nacm.com Subject: CD-ROM scanning problems (E/Linux-SVGA 1.99p3) Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951022014439.20885A@scout> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk When I try to start Executor/Linux (SVGAlib version - I like it!) - the CD-ROM scanning stops audio CD playback (I'm using workbone), and any attempt to resume playing the CD crashes Executor. Also, in Linux kernels under 1.3.3x(x=something), when there is not a data CD in the drive, for a while after Executor is run (quite a while in my case since I don't use X much and have 16MB RAM), is the 'weird - unlocked, unused and unclean buffer...' error. (I thought this was a kernel bug at first and reported it to linux-kernel - I think Linus pulled the message out of the kernel - Eric Youngdale told me it was a normal condition to tell the buffer mechanism that the CD was invalid, hence saving a read in vain.) What I'd like to see is a switch to disable the automatic CD scanning for the cases where it causes trouble... it would be a help when I didn't want to use a HFV CD-ROM, but an audio CD... thanks! - Chad