FC3 disappointment: KsCD locks system; grip; CDROM in general.

[Peter Jones]

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 11:56 -0500, Elliot Lee wrote:
> Turn off DMA for that drive, e.g.
> 
> echo USE_DMA=0 > /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhdc

I doubt if that'll help Kim's case.  I don't actually think his is
related to the ide+reiserfs error below, where a (probably not CD) drive
that's been running for 20000 hours dies one morning, though.

> 
> -- Elliot
> 
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Kim Lux wrote:
> 
> > Someone over on slashdot has a similar error pattern to what I have seen
> > on my machine:
> > 
> > <paste>
> > I upgrade over the weekend, and now I can't access anything on the
> > secondary IDE controller without major problems - my load average when I
> > woke up this morning was over 230. This hardware has been perfectly
> > stable for 2 years.
> > 
> > hdc: dma timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
> > hdc: DMA timeout error
> > hdc: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 {Busy}
> > ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> > hdc: DMA disabled
> > ide1: reset: success
> > hdc: irq timeout: status-0x80 { Busy }
> > ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> > ide: reset: success
> > ReiserFS: warning: is_tree_node: node level 19789 does not match to
> > the expected one 1 
> > <end of paste>
> > 
> > I'll bet money that his /dev/hdc is a cdrom.

Doubt it.
-- 
        Peter

When in doubt, debug-on-entry the function you least suspect has
anything to do with something.