Following my upgrading to linux 2.6.7 I have been unable to burn a CD. This is still true now, even as root, with kernel 2.6.9, having also tried 2.6.8
I know there was a lot of fuss with cdrecord and 2.6.8, but my problems seem to predate that. What happens, when I try to do any simple command is that one of the child processes of cdrecord seems to be stuck in the D state in the kernel. That is, its done an uninterrruptable IO request which has not been detected as completed by the kernel driver (ide-cd?). This means you can't kill the process (even with kill -9) and the only way to get rid of it is with a reboot. (there was a recent discussion on processes getting into this state on the kernel mailing list). Just so everyone is clear of the situation, the second IDE channel has two cdrom like drives. /dev/hdc is the cdrw device which I am trying to use to burn, /dev/hdd is a dvd device. I used the simple command cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0 blank=fast and (with a Rewriteable CD in the drive) it then preceeds to hang. As I can reboot into Windows XP and burn CDs perfectly, and (at least for me) means I have been with a substandard system for a couple of months now. Google around as hard as I try, I cannot seem to find any indication that someone else has such a problem (other than the debian bug report 265747) It looks to me to be some form of kernel error in the driver. Has anyone any idea, even if have have to rebuild the kernel, how I can debug this? -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. --Gandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
