>From: Ville Herva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>When (accidentally) trying to burn ~670MB onto a 74" cdr disk, I experienced
>a complete lock up.
>
>It went to 99% (as one would expect), and then drive began giving weird
>sounds - as if it was moving the head from start to end over and over. After
This must be a broken drive....
>a short while, the whole system locked up, no mouse, keyboard, caps lock,
>ctrl-alt-del, alt-sysrq-{s,u,b}.
This is a broken kernel!
>It used to give a nice error when disk size was exceeded with 2.2.18pre19
>and a tad older cdrecord (1.9-something (1.10-4 failed on 2.2 BTW, giving
>error on mmapping /dev/null)).
Don't use outdated cdrecord versions, I cannot support them!
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/problems.html
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>kernel 2.4.10-ac10 SMP
>cdrecord 1.9-6
1.9 is outdated for a long long time, it obviously cannot contain workarounds
for Linux kernel bugs introduced after cdrecord-1.9 came out.
>kernel messages before the lockup:
>
>Oct 20 20:35:53 kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 155966,
>@+scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 0x2a 00 00 05 48 9e 00 00 1f 00
>Oct 20 20:35:53 kernel: hdd: timeout waiting for DMA
>Oct 20 20:35:53 kernel: ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func
>@+only: 14
>Oct 20 20:35:54 kernel: hdd: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
>Oct 20 20:35:54 kernel: hdd: drive not ready for command
>Oct 20 20:36:28 kernel: hdd: ATAPI reset timed-out, status=0xd0
><halted at this point>
It looks like there is still a timeout bug in the kernel.
If the kernel handles timeouts correctly, then cdrecord will return.
J�rg
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