The power failed earlier this evening, and the system rebooted. When it came
back up, it booted into Linux, not DOS, as it should. When I tried to play
an audio CD using workbone, the program hung, saying "status timeout:
status=0xff", and "hde: drive not ready for command." This is all well and
good -- it's talking to an IDE controller which, as far as the machine is
concerned, doesn't exist because it hasn't been configured.
Unfortunately, workbone *wouldn't die*. I kill -9'ed it several times, to no
avail. Eventually, after sending those messages to the syslog a bunch of
times, it aborted on its own.
Is this a bug? Should the IDE driver exhibit this behavior?
Just curious.