In article <20011021135455.C1598@niksula.cs.hut.fi> vherva@niksula.hut.fi wrote:
| When (accidentally) trying to burn ~670MB onto a 74" cdr disk, I experienced
| a complete lock up.
|
| It went to 99% (as one would expect), and then drive began giving weird
| sounds - as if it was moving the head from start to end over and over. After
| a short while, the whole system locked up, no mouse, keyboard, caps lock,
| ctrl-alt-del, alt-sysrq-{s,u,b}.
|
| It used to give a nice error when disk size was exceeded with 2.2.18pre19
| and a tad older cdrecord (1.9-something (1.10-4 failed on 2.2 BTW, giving
| error on mmapping /dev/null)).
|
| I assume this is a kernel thing...
You are probably correct, but you might try running as a user other
than root, with proper permissions on the device. cdwrite tries to run
with realtime priority, and I don't know just how tightly a realtime
process could lock the systems if it gets its knickers in a twist.
You might also try software watchdog, I would expect it to reboot if
the kernel is up but the RT process is looping, such as waiting for a
status to change or some such.
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