Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ... | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 28 May 2003 11:58:43 +0100 |
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On Mer, 2003-05-28 at 10:36, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote: > Actually it just happens in the fixing stage when burning prebuilt iso > images from the hard disk (same IDE channel as the burner, 2.4.20) > Having a completely frozen machine under X was quite panic inducing ;)
If you have a disk and the burner ont he same channel this is quite normal. The fixate is a single ATAPI command and like all ATA commands locks the bus to both master/slave for its duration of execution.
Its an IDE limitation
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