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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Malcolm R Peacock <malcolm@mpeacock.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> >I can read "small" files from the CD with no problems, but "large"
> >files seem to cause a problem. I'm stil trying to work out the line
> >between "small" and "large".
> 
> I had a similar problem which was solved by adding the line:
>   append = "hda=serialize"
> to my /etc/lilo.conf file.
> It tells you about this in the kernel source code directory for (e)ide
> drivers. I believe that the problem does not exist with 2.0 kernels.

Cheers, I must have missed that bit, I'll check it out. 

Also, I've found I can make the problem go away if I mount the CDROM
with blocksize set to 1024. I'm not quite sure why this would be, I'm
still digging around so see if I can find out why. But, I'm also happy
that I can now use the CD with no problems. :-)

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