Re: amd64 cdrom access locks system

Alan Cox
2006-01-18T09:18:29Z

On Mer, 2006-01-18 at 01:31 +0100, Christer Bäckström wrote:
> ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c7)
>
> The cd-writer locks up if the DMA is enabled, as above. But the drive is
> usable if it is disabled.

Under what circumstances does the writer lock - when writing or in
general ?