On Tuesday 09 November 2004 11:33, Alan Chandler wrote: > 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? > > I had the same problem using 2.6.6 and a USB DVD writer burning CDs with K3B as the frontend. Switching to a CD writer, I haven't had problems. I don't have the DVD writer anymore, so I can't check it, and I have no idea what was going wrong, but you should know that you are not alone.
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