One idea would be to inject more faults into disk (ATA) as opposed to the Optical (ATAPI) drives, and see if doing so in combination with the existing ATAPI poll/fails will trigger things more quickly.
This can be done by using Passthru to issue invalid commands to a drive, which the drive will reject with "Drive Status Errors". I just tried it now on a whim, using "hdparm -Z /dev/sda", and my system never recovered until I used ctrl-alt-sysreq-b. Now mind you, "hdparm -Z" sends a Seagate vendor-unique opcode (to my Fujitsu hard drive), and perhaps that maps to something the Fujitsu recognized or choked on.. But one could edit hdparm to send a NOP or something instead. Cheers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
