Re: Lockup in IDE code

Dan Hollis (goemon@anime.net)
Fri, 9 Nov 2001 11:38:54 -0800 (PST)


On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
> GXavier Bestel writes:
> > le ven 09-11-2001 à 03:17, Richard Gooch a écrit :
> > > Hi, all. I tried to use my IDE CD-ROM today, the first time in a
> > > long while. When attempting to mount it, the machine locked up,
> > > hard. Even SysReq didn't work.
> > Do you have a read error on your CD ?
> No. I did mention that when I turned off DMA, it worked fine.

I don't see why read errors should lock up the kernel anyway... would it
be acceptable for floppy read errors to lock up the kernel too?

-Dan

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