Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 08:59:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: burncd blank freezes system for a while Message-ID: <200110050659.f956xS731174@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <20011004085334.A50784@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
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It seems Andreas Klemm wrote: > Hi Søren, > > first of all thanks for your fine burncd program. It is always my last > chance when burning audio CD's under windows 2000 fails (even with > the latest Nero and other software). Its a pity, that commercial > programs don't do the job well... You're welcome :) > My problem: whenever I blank a CD-RW, it freezes my system for a while > (perhaps ~5-10 seconds). Mouse cursor freezes under X11. But its not > during the complete blank operation. This is normal (on -stable) for now. > ad2: 43979MB <IBM-DTLA-307045> [89355/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA66 > acd1: CD-RW <SONY CD-RW CRX140E> at ata1-slave using PIO4 The above two lines says it all, you share a disk with the burner, now when the blank starts that operation blocks the ATA bus the burner is on due to the way its done in -stable (this doesn't happen on -current but the method there has other problems :) ). So if your system tries to use the disk on that same channel it has to wait until the burner releases the bus. There is no harm done, but the system is unresponsive durinf the block... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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