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Article #1170Re: System panic while reading CDROM
From: bwild
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 08:23
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 08:23
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In article <1dd5ajINNd7q@crcnis1.unl.edu> hickman@cse.unl.edu (Hubert B. Hickman) writes: .. > Since that time I have upgraded to 3.0. Since our local user > group is holding a meeting on Saturday, I thought it would be > a good idea to show this CDROM at the meeting. So, I take > it out, pop it in the drive and try to navigate around in it. > Well, at about the 4th or fifth directory - BLOOEY - system > panic. This happens consistently every time I try to read the > demo CD. I can read the 3.0 upgrade CD just fine, runs apps of > it, copy things from it, etc. No problems with it. > > The only difference that is noticeable from the console is that > the 3rd party demo CD initialized the CDROM filesystem and the > 3.0CD does not : We had the same effect. Additionally, it was impossible to mount Sun or PC CDs under Workspace Manager. The trick to recover was to copy the directory /usr/filesystems from a machine where we encountered no problems to the machine which crashed on CD access. After that everything works fine! Bernd Wild =============================================== Bernd Wild Forschungszentrum Informatik FZI Dept. Technical Expert Systems and Robotics Haid-und-Neu-Strasse 10-14 D-7500 Karlsruhe GERMANY Tel: +49-721-9654-310 Fax: +49-721-9654-309 email: bwild@fzi.de ===============================================
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!destroyer!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!gate.fzi.de!news From: bwild@fzi.de Subject: Re: System panic while reading CDROM Message-ID: <1992Nov6.082351.13837@fzi.de> Sender: news@fzi.de (FZI-news) Reply-To: bwild@fzi.de Organization: FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany References: <1dd5ajINNd7q@crcnis1.unl.edu> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 08:23:51 GMT Lines: 32