Re: Problems Reading Files From IDE CDROM

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From: Dave Pearson
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 00:00

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John Phillips <john@linux.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> | IMPORTANT NOTICE:  "CMD" EIDE Interfaces will not (by default) work 
> | *reliably* when drives are attached to the second interface.  To "fix" 
> | this, supply the special kernel "command line" parameter to LILO:    
> |    hda=serialize
> | Failure to do so can cause severe data corruption!
> 
> It's possible this may be the problem.

That'll teach me to read the README instead of the soruce code. :-)

I'm going to try this one out and see what difference it makes. As
it stands, I've found that playing with the block size seems to
help as well.

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From: Dave Pearson <davep@hagbard.demon.co.uk>
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