Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > >> Although I am curious to know what happens if you take that SATA >> ATAPI drive and replace it with another SATA ATAPI drive of a >> different brand, such as Plextor or Pioneer. Most of the ATAPI >> errors I've seen have been caused by ATAPI devices which simply >> don't implement specific ATAPI commands. FreeBSD is fairly verbose >> about reporting such. > > Sadly that involves $50 or so I don't have (it was my lucky day when I > found $1 under the recylcing containers this morning)... Puhleez! .. /dev/null the poverty reports. Tedious coming from one of Merica's wealthier counties. D'you have the *slightest* idea what limited resources *most* folks here have to work with? Think Eastern Europe. Asia. 66% tax rates in Canada or Danmark. Families to feed, and s**t day-jobs. And use that PATA connection and a salvaged CDR - or borrowed USB one - if you need to burn a CD in such a hurry. > in the > situation your thinking of does the timeout just simplely lock the > drive up (actually not lock it but effectivally so).... for example: > > mount /dev/acd0 /mnt > > will complete freeze mount up (luckly not everything else some other > nameless OS) to the point that ^C, ^Z, kill (w/ and wo/ -9) do > absulutly nothing to get mount to exit > Interesting way to mount an optical device. What happens with: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom ?? BillReceived on Wed Nov 07 2007 - 16:02:15 UTC
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