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SubjectRe: [BUG] DVD writing in 2.6.6-rc2
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.

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Jens Axboe

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