Re: [BUG] DVD writing in 2.6.6-rc2

From: Chris Wedgwood
Date: Wed Apr 28 2004 - 17:14:50 EST


On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 10:09:54PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:

> So it just helped me unearth a different problem :-). There
> certainly is a bug here, it looks like it's hardware though (see the
> above description). ide-cd just needs to have it's SYNC_CACHE
> retries limited, then the kernel should at least recover.

I see cache flushes also go mute and hang forwever. I think ideally
we need to hack the IDE layer to have sane timeouts or something
perhaps?


--cw
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