Re: formatting CD-RW locks the system

[Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>]

Hello.

Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> You probably don't have DMA enabled on the drive. Please check this.
It looks enabled. And even if it didn't,
such a behaviour would still be strange.

# hdparm -v /dev/cdrom

/dev/cdrom:
 HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument
 IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    = 256 (on)
 HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument

> CDRW formatting works fine here with cdrecord blank=all
OK, I'll try cdrecord too, thanks.
But there might be a bug in the kernel
if the system literally dies with the
cdrwtool.