Re: IDE-SCSI Hard Crash

Andre M. Hedrick (hedrick@Astro.Dyer.Vanderbilt.Edu)
Mon, 8 Feb 1999 22:45:56 -0600 (CST)


On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> I am currently using IDE-SCSI (for when I hook up a burner) on my system
> running 2.2.1-ac2; last night, I left the room playing some MP3s off of a
> CD and xlocked my machine. When I came back, my xlock was non-functional

I assume that you disable DMA transfers on the ide-cd reader/writer?
If you did not do this, it will generally cause buffer underruns during
the burn process. Thus you end up with many pretty coasters or shiny
skeet birds.

> and my machine looked dead. Attempting to determine the cause, I tried to
> use sysrq to kill the processes on the VT. This did not work, but when I
> attempted to sync, my machine oopsed. So, I rebooted into vanilla 2.2.1
> and was able to replicate it by copying all the files on the CD to
> /dev/null. I can provide the first oops if you want and full .config, as

.config is not needed, but what is the system setup (chipset)?

> well as testing of any patches.
>
> Jeremy Katz
> http://linuxpower.org
>
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Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
The (NEW) Linux IDE guy

http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/

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(C) me.....

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