On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:02:54 +0100, Alessandro Suardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:44:06 +0000, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Llu, 2005-01-24 at 20:45, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > I've got several reports like this that only happen with ACPI, and one > > > > user whose burns report fine but are corrupted if ACPI is allowed to do > > > > power manglement. > > > > > > Really weird, I cannot begin to explain that. Perhaps the two reporters > > > in this thread can try it as well? > > > > I can sort of guess - the CPU frequency changes (either from ACPI or > > perhaps also from cpuspeed if in use ?) involve the CPU disconnecting > > from the bus and reconnecting. There is much magic involved in this and > > there are certainly chipset and CPU errata in this area. > > Well, booted into 2.6.11-rc2-bk2 (ACPI config'd out) and my > first growisofs session decided to die at 60% with the usual EIO :/ > > The fun thing is that retrying now shows growisofs calling a > HUGE amount of these babies... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmpburn]# strace -p 2337 > ... > ioctl(5, SG_IO, 0xbffff7d8) = 0 > ioctl(5, SG_IO, 0xbffff7d8) = 0 > ioctl(5, SG_IO <unfinished ...> > Process 2337 detached > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmpburn]# strace -c -p 2337 > Process 2337 attached - interrupt to quit > Process 2337 detached > % time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall > ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ---------------- > 100.00 7.762805 239 32445 ioctl > ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ---------------- > 100.00 7.762805 32445 total > > while sitting in its initial prompt: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmpburn]# growisofs -Z /dev/hdc=myfile.iso > WARNING: /dev/hdc already carries isofs! > About to execute 'builtin_dd if=myfile.iso of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0' > Sleeping for 0 sec... > > It looks like every kernel has its own :(
Now of course, after Ctrl-C'ing the growisofs session, a new attempt yielded this [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmpburn]# growisofs -Z /dev/hdc=myfile.iso WARNING: /dev/hdc already carries isofs! About to execute 'builtin_dd if=myfile.iso of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0' /dev/hdc: "Current Write Speed" is 2.0x1385KBps. 1409024/4608387072 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 326:57 1409024/4608387072 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 544:56 1409024/4608387072 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 708:25 1409024/4608387072 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 871:53 1409024/4608387072 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 1089:52 :-[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with SK=3h/ASC=0Ch/ACQ=00h]: Input/output error builtin_dd: 688*2KB out @ average 0.0x1385KBps :-( write failed: Input/output error /dev/hdc: flushing cache /dev/hdc: stopping de-icing /dev/hdc: writing lead-out [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmpburn]# Then, ejecting the disc and trying again, it went through. [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmpburn]# growisofs -Z /dev/hdc=myfile.iso Executing 'builtin_dd if=myfile.iso of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0' /dev/hdc: "Current Write Speed" is 2.0x1385KBps. 13107200/4608387072 ( 0.3%) @2.4x, remaining 40:54 24412160/4608387072 ( 0.5%) @2.4x, remaining 31:17 35717120/4608387072 ( 0.8%) @2.4x, remaining 29:52 47022080/4608387072 ( 1.0%) @2.4x, remaining 27:29 ... 4592205824/4608387072 (99.6%) @2.4x, remaining 0:04 4603510784/4608387072 (99.9%) @2.4x, remaining 0:01 builtin_dd: 2250192*2KB out @ average 2.4x1385KBps /dev/hdc: flushing cache /dev/hdc: stopping de-icing /dev/hdc: writing lead-out Only thing I note is that after reloading, the WARNING about disc already carrying isofs disappeared. I guess my next move will be borrowing a Windows CD and installing it on my former RedHat 9 partition, then trying to burn DVDs from there... --alessandro "And every dream, every, is just a dream after all" (Heather Nova, "Paper Cup") - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/