Re: computer hangs when dd'ing from hdb to a file

From: Richard Zidlicky (Richard.Zidlicky@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de)
Date: Sun May 21 2000 - 15:00:49 EST


On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 05:51:59PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Pierre Cyr wrote:
> > dd if=/dev/hdb of=cdimage
>
> FWIW I had never been able to accomplish this on any IDE CD-ROM drive
> faster than 4X speed... I've never had the lockup or crash you
> describe, but instead I get IDE controller errors after about 70 or
> 100MB.

in this example the CD was not involved, so it is a kernel bug.

Bye
Richard

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