Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:19:58 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] DVD writing in 2.6.6-rc2 |
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On Wed, Apr 28 2004, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 10:09:54PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > So it just helped me unearth a different problem :-). There > > certainly is a bug here, it looks like it's hardware though (see the > > above description). ide-cd just needs to have it's SYNC_CACHE > > retries limited, then the kernel should at least recover. > > I see cache flushes also go mute and hang forwever. I think ideally > we need to hack the IDE layer to have sane timeouts or something > perhaps?
Yeah, with 'retries' I mean waiting retries. The command does expire and ide-cd notices it just doesn't put an upper bound on how long it waits. A minute or so should suffice, unless the caller specifies otherwise.
-- Jens Axboe
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