[PlanetCCRMA] CD-ROM writing trouble with rh9 caps kernel?

[Chris Miles (PlanetCCRMA)]

Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 10:56, Chris Miles (PlanetCCRMA) wrote:
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>>I've just had major trouble writing some CDs under RedHat 9.
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>>I've been running the caps kernel since I found the hangs with the ll 
>>kernel too disruptive - I'd get no keyboard accepted. I liked the disk 
>>speed though!
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>>I've found that I could write one CD, but a second would fail with timeouts.
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>>Yesterday not even the first CD would write, timing out. Since this was 
>>for work I decided to try the stock red hat kernel (2.4.20-37.9).
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>>I still had to power down, turn off at the mains and wait 10 minutes 
>>before it would work and then I was back to normal (apart from the 
>>ruined CDs). Phew :-)
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>>Any ideas what to look for? I really need reliable CD writing but I want 
>>my alsa back.
>>I use an ATA CD with hdc=ide-scsi and xcdroast, etc.
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>If the ll kernel has problems with your hardware you could try to
>install the redhat based Planet CCRMA kernel and matching alsa drivers.
>That should work as well as the original redhat kernel (it is not as
>new, of course). It is installed with:
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>  apt-get install planetccrma-core-redhat
>(for uniprocessor machines)
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>-- Fernando
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Hi Fernando,

I've tried both the "caps" kernel and the "ll" kernels.

I have to give up on the "ll" kernel as the keyboard died regularly. I 
liked its speed though.

I'm puzzled by the interaction with CD writing. It gets expensive in 
both CDs and the time to cycle the hardware after a problem. At the 
moment I'm not clear what I should be monitoring.

Perhaps the capability patches upset the ide-scsi timing.

I've reverted to the current redhat kernel for the moment. I've got ALSA 
back by making rpms from the alsa-driver-1.0.4 source. Of course I need 
the capabilities patches for JACK don't I?

I may try rolling my own kernel to see if I can track this CD problem 
down. I believe the kernel patches you use are on the Planet site?

Chris