Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
28 May 2003 11:58:43 +0100

On Mer, 2003-05-28 at 10:36, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:
> Actually it just happens in the fixing stage when burning prebuilt iso
> images from the hard disk (same IDE channel as the burner, 2.4.20)
> Having a completely frozen machine under X was quite panic inducing ;)

If you have a disk and the burner ont he same channel this is quite
normal. The fixate is a single ATAPI command and like all ATA commands
locks the bus to both master/slave for its duration of execution.

Its an IDE limitation

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