Acer 650-P 50x CD-ROM (IDE) -- compatibility?

by Conrad Sabati » Sat, 04 Dec 1999 04:00:00

Was browsing in CompUSA today, saw this drive. Looked like a
good buy at about $60. I'm just wondering how well it will
work with FreeBSD, particularly for audio CDs (playing, ripping,
etc.). My current drive is *(doesn't respond to commands to
skip ahead/back a track, for instance, and is utterly useless for
ripping MP3s), and I've been putting off replacing it long enough,
but I don't want to end up in the same boat with a new drive.

Any info, opinions much appreciated. Thanks.
--
Conrad Sabatier
http://www.veryComputer.com/

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1. ACER 50X CD-ROM

Hi all- I recently installed an Acer 50X CD-ROM on my win/linux RH6.1
box, and the Linux part can no longer do anything with it. If I try to
mount it, i get an error message saying "mount: /dev/cdrom had the wrong
major or minor number." I am pretty new to linux and I don't have any
idea what this means. it also gives me some errors during startup:

hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: packet command error: error=0x54
ATAPI device hdc:
Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
Parameter list length error -- (asc=0x1a, ascq=0x00)
The failed "Mode Sense" packet command was:
"5a 00 2a 00 00 00 00 00 18 00 00 00 "
hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: packet command error: error=0x54
ATAPI device hdc:
Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
Parameter list length error -- (asc=0x1a, ascq=0x00)
The failed "Mode Sense" packet command was:
"5a 00 2a 00 00 00 00 00 18 00 00 00 "
hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: packet command error: error=0x54
ATAPI device hdc:
Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
Parameter list length error -- (asc=0x1a, ascq=0x00)
The failed "Mode Sense" packet command was:
"5a 00 2a 00 00 00 00 00 18 00 00 00 "