Re: IDE-SCSI/HPT366 Problem

[Kurt Garloff <kurt@garloff.de>]

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On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 01:06:16PM -0600, --Damacus Porteng-- wrote:
> Problem:
> 	The problem lies with using my EIDE CDRW - I set it up properly using
> 	IDE-SCSI.  I can use my mp3tocdda shell script to encode mp3s to CD
> 	(uses cdrecord as well) on the fly using either drive, however, when I
> 	use cdrecord to write a data CD, the system hard-locks, no kernel
> 	panic messages, and no Magic SysRQ keystroke works.  
> 
> 	Quite odd that I could do the cdrecord for audio tracks, but not
> 	data..

Strange. If you read data from the harddisk on an IDE channel and write it
(with cdrecord) to some CDRW on the same IDE channel, you have to expect
trouble: As with IDE there is no disconnect from the bus (as opposed to
SCSI), you risk buffer underruns. 
A lockup however is not to be expected :-(

Regards,
-- 
Kurt Garloff  <garloff@suse.de>                          Eindhoven, NL
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SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG                               SCSI, Security

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