[comp.sys.next] Voracious Optical Disk Driver

dong@blake.u.washington.edu (Dong-Lok Kim) (01/10/91)

I got a problem from the Optical Disk Driver- It started not 
working at all.

When I insert an optical disk after selecting 'mount' menu(the system  has s/w 
release 1.0), the system eats it up.

When I tried to initialize an optical disk, the following messages it gave;

        (from system)   Please insert new disk for volume 0
                        (Press 'n' key if disk is not available)

        (I inserted disk)
        (then system sent out this message;)
                        od0?: driver command failed(busy timeout #1) block 0
                        phys block 67614344 (4230045:0:8)

        (system stucked here and I had to use command-tilde to exit this stuck)

The hard disk works very fine.
I appreciate it if someone  there could give me some help to get 
around this problem. 

Thank you in advance.

	
Dong-Lok Kim
ICSL Dept. of EE 
Univ. of Washington 
TEL) 206-543-1017

iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) (01/12/91)

>When I insert an optical disk after selecting 'mount' menu(the system  has s/w 
>release 1.0), the system eats it up.

This happened a  few  times to me. Probably   a dust problem  with the  drive.
Rather nasty dust problem,  because it appears  to kill the OD completely  for
all future  accesses.  I wonder if you bought  one of the earlier cubes, where
the fac sucks the wrong way.

/ivo