Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <> | Date | Mon, 9 Sep 2002 14:15:34 -0400 | Subject | XCdroast/cdrecord crashes kernel 2.4.18 when mastering on the fly |
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When backing up a partition on the fly, XCdroast/cdrecord crashed (which is forgiveable) but it also crashed my Linux system (which is not). System and consoles were totally unresponsive, requiring a dreaded unclean reboot.
Joerg schilling (maintainer of cdrecord) suggests problem is with Linux kernel and not with 'cdrecord'
Any thoughts on what might be going on?
Note that mastering-on-the-fly seemed to work OK if I just backed up a couple of very large tar files, while the crashes seem to occur when backing up a partition with multiple files. This difference is explained perhaps by the extra overload of mastering multiple small files vs. a few large tar files.
My system setup is as follows: * Brand new 24x10x40 Hi-Val CDR * CD recording software cdrtools-cdda2wav-1.11a23-1.i386.rpm cdrtools-mkisofs-1.11a23-1.i386.rpm cdrtools-cdrecord-1.11a23-1.i386.rpm cdrtools-devel-1.11a23-1.i386.rpm xcdroast-0.98alpha10-1.i386.rpm * Relatively pristine RH 7.3 running kernel 2.4.18 * System hardware is a bit old and slow (Pentium 200 MHz Overdrive in an old P100 Intel Aladding/Zappa PCI Motherboard)
Even with the older system hardware, I would hope that we could get Xcdroast/cdrecord to at least die gracefully if things are too slow to master on-the-fly.
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