Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

Bill Davidsen
2004-08-12T22:32:04Z

Con Kolivas wrote:

> It was a hard lockup and randomly happened during a cd write, creating
> my first coaster in a long time... in rt mode ironically which is how it
> is recommended to be run. So I removed the foolish superuser bit and
> have had no problem since. Yes it was unaltered cdrecord source and it
> was the so-called alpha branch and... Not much else I can say about it
> really?

I said I'd never seen this (true), but it could happen if you were
burning an audio CD using the ide-scsi or ATA: interface. In 2.6 the
ATAPI: interface uses DMA. I don't know what the program does if you
just say dev=/dev/hdx, I don't normally use it that way (I got into the
habit of using ATAPI:). Given a fast burner and the interface using PIO,
I guess you could slow the system down some!

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