Re: 2.3.18ac8+smp-H3

Jens Axboe (axboe@image.dk)
Sat, 2 Oct 1999 12:43:38 +0200


On Thu, Sep 30 1999, Craig I. Hagan wrote:
> i've found that ripping cd's on my machine from ide (sony cd) -> scsi
> (AHA274x/284x/294x, western digital UW drive) occasionally causes the machine
> to hard lock. ripping from the ide cdrom to an ide drive does not run into
> this > problem. additionally running 2.3.18ac8 + smp-h3 does funky things
> to the sound output, it soulds like it is at half speed. i'm currently
> not able to debug the former since i'm not sure how to use the
> sys-request key under a hard lock > while running xwindows
> (no serial console). i'm more than willing to give additional
> patches/whathaveyou a try to see what happens.
>
> the machine is a dual cpu celeron with an asus p2b-ds motherboard.

Try a later ac patch, we fixed a possible deadlock in
ide_do_drive_cmd() which is heavily used when ripping
audio.

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*  Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk>
*  Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
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