Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:39:53 -0500 | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: CD-blanking leads to machine freeze with current -git [was: Re: CD writing in future Linux try #2 [ was: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) ]] |
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On Friday 10 February 2006 14:19, Phillip Susi wrote: >Marc Koschewski wrote: >> I just tried blanking a CD-RW with the latest -git tree. The machine >> just became unresponsive and then froze. When it became unresponsive >> the clock in GNOME still displayed the current time but I could not >> focus any windows anymore. Then I had to hard reboot the machine. >> The logs say nothing. I repeat: nothing. >> >> Does anyone have similar problems? > >Instead of rebooting, just wait for the blanking to finish. My guess > is that your burner and hard drive are both on the same ide channel, > and so you can not access the disk while the burner is blanking. If > this is the case, put each drive on their own ide channel. > It takes hard drive access to switch window focus? Yes, thats a question.
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