Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 12:01:35 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
Cc: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <ragnar@linalco.com>,
       manish <manish@storadinc.com>,
       Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2003@gmx.net>,
       Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
       Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Christian Klose <christian.klose@freenet.de>,
       William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Subject: Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...
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On Wed, May 28 2003, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:36, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:
> 
> Hi Ragnar,
> 
> > Actually it just happens in the fixing stage when burning prebuilt iso
> > images from the hard disk (same IDE channel as the burner, 2.4.20)
> > Having a completely frozen machine under X was quite panic inducing ;)
> That's a problem of IDE itself. I still say IDE is broken by design ;-)

It is actually possible to use the IMMED bit of the CLOSE_TRACK command
to get around this. In that case the cd-r will return the command as
completed and the drive on the same channel can service requests.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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