From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265232AbUBAIY3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 03:24:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265233AbUBAIY3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 03:24:29 -0500 Received: from 216-99-213-120.dsl.aracnet.com ([216.99.213.120]:43487 "EHLO clueserver.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265232AbUBAIY1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 03:24:27 -0500 Subject: Re: ide-cdrom / atapi burning bug - 2.6.1 From: Alan To: Jens Axboe Cc: David Ford , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mans Matulewicz In-Reply-To: <20040131184923.GD11683@suse.de> References: <1075511134.5412.59.camel@localhost> <20040131093438.GS11683@suse.de> <401BF122.2090709@blue-labs.org> <20040131184923.GD11683@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1075623865.26031.9.camel@zontar.clueserver.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 00:24:26 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.) 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. -- "Push that big, big granite sphere way up there from way down here! Gasp and sweat and pant and wheeze! Uh-oh! Feel momentum cease! Watch it tumble down and then roll the boulder up again!" - The story of Sisyphus by Dr. Zeus in Frazz 12/18/2003