Subject: Re: CDROM oddity :-)
To: Dr. John Refling <refling@comet.lbl.gov>
From: mjbedy <mjbedy@Oakland.edu>
List: port-pmax
Date: 04/15/1998 17:56:13
   I've been so busy that I completely forgot about that. I was going to
try to make it do it again, wasn't I? 

   I'll try to find time this weekend to apply that patch and see what
happens.

   - Mike


On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Dr. John Refling wrote:

> Yeah, it works for a while.  I can mount it, descend into the directory
> structure, look at several files, etc.
> 
> When I burn CDROMs, I create a checksum list and I verify each file.  There
> really is 650MB of data on it, and it is in this massive data read from the
> CDROM that the system gives up the ghost and rolls over in silence.
> 
> It fails at different places at different times (often over half way thru)
> with the same disc.
> 
> This is on the 5000/200, which has other problems.  When I moved the boot
> disk to a 5000/125, many of those problems went away, although I don't
> remember if I tested the CDROM.  The problems did go away using a non RRD42.
> 
> I can test more things in a week or so.
>