Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Feb 2004 16:27:42 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: ide-cdrom / atapi burning bug - 2.6.1 |
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On Sun, Feb 01 2004, Alan wrote: > 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.)
One process can easily stall the other, if they end up waiting on some resource. Might not always happen, but easily can.
> 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.
There's not much you can do about it - you may want to try -immed as mentioned earlier in this thread.
-- Jens Axboe
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