Re: A CD with errors (scratches etc.) blocks the whole system while

[Stephen Samuel]

> I don't think it has to do with the IRQs, but it sounds like the entire ide
> chipset (think two cables one one chipset...) has stopped responding when
> ONE device (out of a possible four (with two cables)) has failed media.

In my case, I was able to read data from hda while the cdrom
on hdd was trying to recover data from a scratched disk.
Reading data from hdc (shared cable with the CDROM), on the
other hand, was VERY slow.

I have an 82371AB PIIX4 ide interface (dual IDE chipset),
It's part of a 440BX chipset board.

If accessing on one IDE interface (C/D) causes the other (A/B) to lockup,
I'd guess you've got especially cheap hardware on your box.

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