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Subject: Re: Problem with read blocking for a long time on /dev/scd1
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Gregory Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:

> I'm having a problem with ogle that seems to be being caused by the scsi or
> ide-scsi driver. The video playback freezes for a second or randomly,
> sometimes every few seconds, sometimes not for several minutes. Every such
> glitch is correlated perfectly with a read syscall reading on /dev/scd1
> blocking for an inordinate amount of time.

And scd1 is a ide-scsi CDROM? The CDROM might have problem reading the
disc, and it blocks the entire bus. IDEs AFAIK don't disconnect.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
Network Administrator
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