Re: Lockup in IDE code

From: Xavier Bestel (xavier.bestel@free.fr)
Date: Fri Nov 09 2001 - 14:49:22 EST


le ven 09-11-2001 à 20:38, Dan Hollis a écrit :
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > GXavier Bestel writes:
> > > le ven 09-11-2001 à 03:17, Richard Gooch a écrit :
> > > > Hi, all. I tried to use my IDE CD-ROM today, the first time in a
> > > > long while. When attempting to mount it, the machine locked up,
> > > > hard. Even SysReq didn't work.
> > > Do you have a read error on your CD ?
> > No. I did mention that when I turned off DMA, it worked fine.
>
> I don't see why read errors should lock up the kernel anyway... would it
> be acceptable for floppy read errors to lock up the kernel too?

Indeed, but they do, on my machine anyway.

        Xav

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