Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2003-05-29T08:23:25Z

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:58:43AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mer, 2003-05-28 at 10:36, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:
> > 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 ;)
>
> If you have a disk and the burner ont he same channel this is quite
> normal. The fixate is a single ATAPI command and like all ATA commands
> locks the bus to both master/slave for its duration of execution.
>
> Its an IDE limitation

Thats what you get for cheap hardware ;) Anyway, I do have two
questions regarding pauses when fixating, in case someone knows..

- Why it doesn't the freeze always happen (I think it doesn't)
- Why doesn't the complete computer freeze happen always.

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