Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261684AbVDKEGz (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:06:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261691AbVDKEGz (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:06:55 -0400 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:19776 "EHLO pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261684AbVDKEGx (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:06:53 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 22:03:30 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: formatting CD-RW locks the system In-reply-to: <3RXML-BZ-15@gated-at.bofh.it> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <4259F712.4070802@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <3RPvT-2g8-31@gated-at.bofh.it> <3RRo1-3O4-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <3RXML-BZ-15@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 783 Lines: 21 Stas Sergeev wrote: > OK, I'll try cdrecord too, thanks. > But there might be a bug in the kernel > if the system literally dies with the > cdrwtool. If the format is being done as a single blocking ATAPI command, then that will definitely block any other accesses on the same IDE channel, at least - that's just the way IDE works. That shouldn' have an effect on other IDE channels though.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - 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/