Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 6745] New: kernel hangs when trying to read atip wiith cdrecord

[Christian Lohmaier]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:30:22 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Christian Lohmaier wrote:
>>I updated the bug-report with some info I collected from another bug. 
>
>>Apparently my drive sends additional interrupts that confuses the kernel 
>>and make it hang. 
>>The problem is triggered with newer versions of cdrecord (cdrtools 
>>2.01a33 and newer) where cdrecord changed its driver interface. 
> 
> cdrtools-2.01a33 is extremely old (2 years).
> 
> It did not introduce new SCSI commands (compared to prevuious versions) and I
> would be interested why this problem is discussed late.

Because that problems only occurs in the combination of recent cdrtools with
kernel 2.6.x
I for myself have been using kernel 2.4.x until recently I switched to 2.6.x

> The only new thing with cdrecord-2.01a33 is that it started to transfer more 
> than 4 bytes with the "read buffer" command. As this is only issued in case that
> the "read buffer" command did succeed with 4 bytes transfer count and as 
> cdrecord does not transfer more than the drive advertizes, I am just depending 
> on a kernel that does not freeze from the SCSI command I am issuing.

OK - thats already a hint. Maybe this helps the kernel-devs.

ciao
Christian
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