Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...

Jens Axboe
2003-05-28T09:48:32Z

On Wed, May 28 2003, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:36, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:
>
> Hi Ragnar,
>
> > Actually it just happens in the fixing stage when burning prebuilt iso
> > images from the hard disk (same IDE channel as the burner, 2.4.20)
> > Having a completely frozen machine under X was quite panic inducing ;)
> That's a problem of IDE itself. I still say IDE is broken by design ;-)

It is actually possible to use the IMMED bit of the CLOSE_TRACK command
to get around this. In that case the cd-r will return the command as
completed and the drive on the same channel can service requests.

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Jens Axboe