Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261998AbTE2IXZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2003 04:23:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262008AbTE2IXY (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2003 04:23:24 -0400 Received: from 19.Red-213-97-251.pooles.rima-tde.net ([213.97.251.19]:21950 "EHLO linalco.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261998AbTE2IXY (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2003 04:23:24 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 10:34:54 +0200 From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa To: Alan Cox Cc: Marc-Christian Petersen , manish , Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , Andrea Arcangeli , Marcelo Tosatti , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Christian Klose , William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ... Message-ID: <20030529083454.GA6098@linalco.com> References: <3ED2DE86.2070406@storadinc.com> <3ED3A2AB.3030907@gmx.net> <3ED3A55E.8080807@storadinc.com> <200305271954.11635.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> <20030528093654.GA20687@linalco.com> <1054119522.20167.4.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1054119522.20167.4.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> X-Edited-With-Muttmode: muttmail.sl - 2001-09-27 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:58:43AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mer, 2003-05-28 at 10:36, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote: > > 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 ;) > > If you have a disk and the burner ont he same channel this is quite > normal. The fixate is a single ATAPI command and like all ATA commands > locks the bus to both master/slave for its duration of execution. > > Its an IDE limitation Thats what you get for cheap hardware ;) Anyway, I do have two questions regarding pauses when fixating, in case someone knows.. - Why it doesn't the freeze always happen (I think it doesn't) - Why doesn't the complete computer freeze happen always. -- Ragnar Hojland - Project Manager Linalco "Especialistas Linux y en Software Libre" http://www.linalco.com Tel: +34-91-5970074 Fax: +34-91-5970083 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/