2.4.10ac10, cdrecord 1.9-6, Mitsumi CR-4804TE: lock up burning too large image

[Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi>]

When (accidentally) trying to burn ~670MB onto a 74" cdr disk, I experienced
a complete lock up.
                                                                                
It went to 99% (as one would expect), and then drive began giving weird
sounds - as if it was moving the head from start to end over and over. After
a short while, the whole system locked up, no mouse, keyboard, caps lock,
ctrl-alt-del, alt-sysrq-{s,u,b}.
                                                                                
It used to give a nice error when disk size was exceeded with 2.2.18pre19
and a tad older cdrecord (1.9-something (1.10-4 failed on 2.2 BTW, giving
error on mmapping /dev/null)).
                                                                                
I assume this is a kernel thing...
                                                                                
BTW: Also the cd audio ripping speed has dropped from ~8x to ~1x with both
my cdrw and cd drive. The drop took place before upgrading from 2.2 to 2.4. 
I am and was using scsi-emulation for both drives. I tried going back to
older cdparanoia, but it didn't help. Before I try to binary search what has
changed, does anybody have any ideas on what to try?
                                                                                
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kernel 2.4.10-ac10 SMP                                                          
cdrecord 1.9-6                                                                  
                                                                                
dmesg:                                                                          
scsi : 0 hosts left.                                                            
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00                                            
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices                       
  Vendor: MITSUMI   Model: CR-4804TE         Rev: 2.4C                          
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02             
APIC error on CPU0: 08(02)                                                      
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0                       
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray                          
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12                                            
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray                   
                                                                                
hdparm /dev/hdd:
                                                                                
/dev/hdd:                                                                       
 HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Input/output error                                  
 I/O support  =  0 (default 16-bit)                                             
 unmaskirq    =  0 (off)                                                        
 using_dma    =  1 (on)                                                         
 keepsettings =  0 (off)                                                        
 HDIO_GET_NOWERR failed: Input/output error                                     
 readonly     =  0 (off)                                                        
 BLKRAGET failed: Input/output error                                            
 HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument                                           
                                                                                
cdrecord -scanbus:                                                              
        0,1,0     1) 'MITSUMI ' 'CR-4804TE       ' '2.4C' Removable CD-ROM      
                                                                                
                                                                                
kernel messages before the lockup:
                                                                                
Oct 20 20:35:53 kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 155966,    
@+scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 0x2a 00 00 05 48 9e 00 00 1f 00                 
Oct 20 20:35:53 kernel: hdd: timeout waiting for DMA                            
Oct 20 20:35:53 kernel: ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func     
@+only: 14                                                                      
Oct 20 20:35:54 kernel: hdd: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }               
Oct 20 20:35:54 kernel: hdd: drive not ready for command                        
Oct 20 20:36:28 kernel: hdd: ATAPI reset timed-out, status=0xd0                 
<halted at this point>                                                          


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