Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261210AbUD1WNo (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 18:13:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261628AbUD1WNo (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 18:13:44 -0400 Received: from pimout3-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.63.102]:4862 "EHLO pimout3-ext.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261210AbUD1WNn (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 18:13:43 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:13:34 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Jens Axboe Cc: Kenneth Johansson , Moritz Muehlenhoff , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] DVD writing in 2.6.6-rc2 Message-ID: <20040428221334.GA22404@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <1083088772.2679.11.camel@tiger> <20040427183607.GA3011@suse.de> <8n23m1-g22.ln1@legolas.mmuehlenhoff.de> <20040428113056.GA2150@suse.de> <1083176956.2679.19.camel@tiger> <20040428200953.GA3470@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040428200953.GA3470@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 715 Lines: 18 On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 10:09:54PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > So it just helped me unearth a different problem :-). There > certainly is a bug here, it looks like it's hardware though (see the > above description). ide-cd just needs to have it's SYNC_CACHE > retries limited, then the kernel should at least recover. I see cache flushes also go mute and hang forwever. I think ideally we need to hack the IDE layer to have sane timeouts or something perhaps? --cw - 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/