From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 13:17:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 13:17:49 -0400 Received: from h24-68-93-250.vc.shawcable.net ([24.68.93.250]:58241 "EHLO me.bcgreen.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 13:17:47 -0400 Message-ID: <3CD17436.8070309@bcgreen.com> Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 10:15:34 -0700 From: Stephen Samuel Organization: Just Another Radical User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020427 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Fedyk CC: Bill Davidsen , Andre Hedrick , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: A CD with errors (scratches etc.) blocks the whole system while reading damadged files In-Reply-To: <20020502034530.GT574@matchmail.com> <3CD0F846.3070605@bcgreen.com> <20020502154046.GU574@matchmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge (rev 03) 00:04.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:04.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:04.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:04.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 01:26:46AM -0700, Stephen Samuel wrote: > >>I ran a similar type of test on a 2.4.9.31 (redhat 7.1 ) kernel. >>With the CD on HDD, I could read off of HDA just peachy while >>the system was choking on a scratched (aol) cd. >> >>I did a WC of a 300MB file (only 256MB of ram on the system, >>so that's guaranteed to not fit in any cache). >> >>Times to read the file were statistically equivalent whether >>the system was choking on the CD or not. > > > Great, can you post the lspci output for your IDE chipset(s)? -- Stephen Samuel +1(604)876-0426 samuel@bcgreen.com http://www.bcgreen.com/~samuel/ Powerful committed communication, reaching through fear, uncertainty and doubt to touch the jewel within each person and bring it to life.