[ale] sbpcd trouble. Any ideas?

[jknapka at mindspring.com (Joe)]

>Steve Loboyko wrote
>

>>Joe wrote:
>>
>>However, a couple of days ago, Linux suddenly became unable to mount
>>the CD-ROM drive. Details follow; does anyone have any idea what could
>>cause this? I would be surprised if it is a hardware problem, given
>>the symptoms, but I am open to the possibility :-( (actually, I'm just
>>fervently hoping...) I tried multiple different CD's in all the
>>following cases, and got the same results.
>>

>Sounds like a genuine hardware prob. Linux may not be as tolerant as MS-DOS
>is and may not retry as much. I am very disapointed with the quality of the
>new CD-ROMs. I got a 100 Mhz pentium with 6X CD and I can HEAR the thing
>retrying and re-homing, and DOS/Win reports no problemo.

AHA! Thanx to all who responded, but I have stumbled upon a
"solution". After having done something incredibly stupid this
morning, I ended up booting from my rescue disk, which, lo and behold,
was able to mount the CDROM. The only difference between the rescue
disk kernel and the "live" kernel is that the rescue kernel autoprobes
for the CDROM. I changed the live kernel to do the same, and voila, the
problem went away.

-- Joe

PS: Re. Mindspring's move to dynamic address assignment: uh-oh! When? I've
not heard about this...