From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, axboe@suse.de, andre@linux-ide.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.18: short dd read from IDE cdrom
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 01:35:25 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020903073525.GA13386@codepoet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200209030719.g837JCJ24173@sprite.physics.adelaide.edu.au>
On Tue Sep 03, 2002 at 04:49:12PM +0930, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Yesterday I reported a problem to lkml I observed with `dd' and ide cds:
> > For a number of years now I have duplicated cds using
> > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=foo.iso
> > cdrecord ... foo.iso
> > :
> > Today I tried the same trick under 2.4.18 and struck a problem: the kernel
> > would not read the complete CD image. ...
>
> After further testing, it seems that turning off dma using "hdparm -d 0
> /dev/hdc" allows things to work as expected - the full disk can be read and
> the resulting image is intact. It appears therefore that the problem may
Interesting. When DMA is enabled does running
blockdev --setra 0 /dev/cdrom
make any difference?
-Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-03 7:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-02 5:27 Linux 2.4.18: short dd read from IDE cdrom Jonathan Woithe
2002-09-03 7:19 ` Jonathan Woithe
2002-09-03 7:35 ` Erik Andersen [this message]
2002-09-05 0:39 ` Jonathan Woithe
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