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- From: Chad Page <page0588@sundance.sjsu.edu>
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- Subject: CD-ROM scanning problems (E/Linux-SVGA 1.99p3)
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- (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.)
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- 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!
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- - Chad
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