Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc4 - pls test (and no more patches)

Lee Revell
2004-10-12T01:10:30Z

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 19:35, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Well, as far as I can tell from the patch, the only way to get data
> corruption from the bug is when you use the SCSI ioctl's at the same time
> as the disk is busy.
>
> In other words, I think you'd have to do some special disk management, or
> possibly try to burn a CD on a SCSI CD-ROM (or other special device that
> uses the SCSI ioctl's) on the same controller. And nobody uses SCSI
> CD-burners any more, I'd think.

This is not some far-out scenario. For a long time Plextor SCSI burners
were the best on the market, there are 1000's of them out there.

Lee