Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261676AbVDKDYK (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 23:24:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261677AbVDKDYK (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 23:24:10 -0400 Received: from mail.aknet.ru ([217.67.122.194]:33549 "EHLO mail.aknet.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261676AbVDKDYG (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 23:24:06 -0400 Message-ID: <4259EDE0.8030509@aknet.ru> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 07:24:16 +0400 From: Stas Sergeev User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 X-Accept-Language: ru, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alistair John Strachan Cc: Linux kernel Subject: Re: formatting CD-RW locks the system References: <42597088.9050004@aknet.ru> <200504102136.09229.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200504102136.09229.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 888 Lines: 30 Hello. Alistair John Strachan wrote: > You probably don't have DMA enabled on the drive. Please check this. It looks enabled. And even if it didn't, such a behaviour would still be strange. # hdparm -v /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom: HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument > CDRW formatting works fine here with cdrecord blank=all OK, I'll try cdrecord too, thanks. But there might be a bug in the kernel if the system literally dies with the cdrwtool. - 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/