Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

[Måns Rullgård]

Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Con Kolivas wrote:
>
>> It was a hard lockup and randomly happened during a cd write,
>> creating my first coaster in a long time... in rt mode ironically
>> which is how it is recommended to be run. So I removed the foolish
>> superuser bit and have had no problem since. Yes it was unaltered
>> cdrecord source and it was the so-called alpha branch and... Not
>> much else I can say about it really?
>
> I said I'd never seen this (true), but it could happen if you were
> burning an audio CD using the ide-scsi or ATA: interface. In 2.6 the
> ATAPI: interface uses DMA. I don't know what the program does if you
> just say dev=/dev/hdx,

Whatever it does, it doesn't load the system noticeably.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxx

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