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From: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
To: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: formatting CD-RW locks the system
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 07:24:16 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4259EDE0.8030509@aknet.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200504102136.09229.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>

Hello.

Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> You probably don't have DMA enabled on the drive. Please check this.
It looks enabled. And even if it didn't,
such a behaviour would still be strange.

# hdparm -v /dev/cdrom

/dev/cdrom:
 HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument
 IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    = 256 (on)
 HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument

> CDRW formatting works fine here with cdrecord blank=all
OK, I'll try cdrecord too, thanks.
But there might be a bug in the kernel
if the system literally dies with the
cdrwtool.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-11  3:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-10 18:29 formatting CD-RW locks the system Stas Sergeev
2005-04-10 20:36 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-04-11  1:21   ` Gene Heskett
2005-04-11  3:24   ` Stas Sergeev [this message]
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     [not found] ` <3RRo1-3O4-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <3RXML-BZ-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-04-11  4:03     ` Robert Hancock
     [not found]   ` <3RVUD-7td-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-04-11 16:33     ` Bodo Eggert

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