Re: ide-cdrom / atapi burning bug - 2.6.1

[Jens Axboe]

On Sun, Feb 01 2004, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, 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.
> 
> My IBM A31p (Intel 845 chipset) had a similar problem with the CD
> burner. Using the '-immed' flag resolved the issue for me.

(Dave cut from cc, annoying auth process required to mail him)

immed will help, because it causes the command to 'release' in as close
a sense to the word as ide allows. I'm not sure if error handling works
correctly in that case?

-- 
Jens Axboe

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