Re: ide-cdrom / atapi burning bug - 2.6.1

[Alan]

On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 10:49, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31 2004, David Ford wrote:
> > I don't have an RW, but when my cdrom fixates, it stalls everything 
> > while it's fixating.  I have an nForce chipset.  (2.6.x)
> 
> Does "everything" mean everything on that ide channel? If so, then
> that's a hardware limitation.

I have seen the problem as well.

It is not just processes using the IDE.  Everything will pause for a
second or two. (Which causes grief with streaming audio running at the
same time.)

Even more annoying is that it does not always occur. I have not tried
tracking down where the kernel is getting hung up at that moment since
it has been fairly intermittent for me.

-- 
"Push that big, big granite sphere way up there from way down here!
Gasp and sweat and pant and wheeze! Uh-oh! Feel momentum cease!
Watch it tumble down and then roll the boulder up again!"
    - The story of Sisyphus by Dr. Zeus in Frazz 12/18/2003

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