Re: 2.3.43: IDE CD mount(8) hangs; ditto SysRq

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Sun, 13 Feb 2000 16:19:41 -0500

On Sun, Feb 13 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
> All 2.3.x kernels I tried here before, 20 <= x <= 42, gave severe ext2
> filesystem corruption, fixed with 2.3.42aa2 and in 2.3.43 AFAIKS, so I
> didn't look closely in between. Also, mounting a CD on 2.3.43 hangs the
> machine for good. SysRq setting does the same, so...

I haven't seen any hang reports in a long time -- are you sure your
hardware is ok?

> 2.2.15pre7 (current kernel here) works fine. It reverted to Revision 2.56
> of the CD driver, 2.2.15pre6 had 3.06 like the current 2.3 kernels and
> gives the same messages. On 2.2.15pre6 mounting the CD works fine.

1) The cdrom.c revision has *nothing* to do with this
2) 2.2.15-pre6 does definately not contain 3.06, so that can't
have been a vanilla kernel.

-- 
*  Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
*  Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
*  http://www.kernel.dk


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