Re: v2.1.126: Total freeze with simply bulk copy... :-(

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 3 Nov 1998 21:15:48 +0000 (GMT)

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> The following command totally freezes v2.1.126 after a while:
>
> dd if=/dev/sdc0 of=/dev/null
>
> with /dev/sdc0 my cdrom drive.
>
> The following modules are inserted
>
> sr_mod 17900 1 (autoclean)
> cdrom 11424 0 (autoclean) [sr_mod]
> isofs 16204 1 (autoclean)
>
> Even if the CD has a damaged surface, the kernel should not freeze, I think.
> In /var/adm/syslog I cannot find anything valuable...

Known bug. You can do it with damaged floppies sometimes too

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