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Re: System panic while reading CDROM

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From: bwild
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

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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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