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SubjectRe: ide-cdrom / atapi burning bug - 2.6.1
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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