On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:04:13AM +0800, clayton wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.21-2-686
> Version: 2.6.21-6
> Severity: normal
>
>
> I have an old HP SureStore CD-Writer Plus 7200e CD parallel
> interface CD burner that some years back used to work just fine with
> Debian. I just dusted it off, and the drivers fail badly.
>
> When I manually load the "pcd" driver, I hear the drive spinning, then
> an "events" process quickly grabs 99+% of CPU and the whole system
> becomes so sluggish that I barely retain sufficient control to type halt
> in a terminal. The halt process was so slow that I finally had to power
> down.
>
> Unplugging the external drive has no effect, suggesting that something
> in the driver is spinning.
Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?
If so, can you rule out that the hardware is broken?
Cheers,
Moritz
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