Re: formatting CD-RW locks the system

2005-04-11 Thread Bodo Eggert
Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Every disk system I have ever delt with, has as a default, (and I've > walked around in a couple of them at the assembly language level) the > assumption that if track 0 is to be formatted, then the whole device > is assumed to be needing formatted, and ev

Re: formatting CD-RW locks the system

2005-04-10 Thread Robert Hancock
Stas Sergeev wrote: OK, I'll try cdrecord too, thanks. But there might be a bug in the kernel if the system literally dies with the cdrwtool. If the format is being done as a single blocking ATAPI command, then that will definitely block any other accesses on the same IDE channel, at least - that

Re: formatting CD-RW locks the system

2005-04-10 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Alistair John Strachan wrote: You probably don't have DMA enabled on the drive. Please check this. It looks enabled. And even if it didn't, such a behaviour would still be strange. # hdparm -v /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom: HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmas

Re: formatting CD-RW locks the system

2005-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 10 April 2005 16:36, Alistair John Strachan wrote: >On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 19:29, you wrote: >> Hello. >> >> I am trying to format the CD-RW disc >> on my NEC ND-3520A DVD writer, and the >> results are completely unexpected: I do >> cdrwtool -d /dev/cdrom -q >> It proceeds with the format

Re: formatting CD-RW locks the system

2005-04-10 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 19:29, you wrote: > Hello. > > I am trying to format the CD-RW disc > on my NEC ND-3520A DVD writer, and the > results are completely unexpected: I do > cdrwtool -d /dev/cdrom -q > It proceeds with the formatting, but > while it does so, the system is pretty > much dead. It ca