Hi. I'm getting these when I dd zeros across my DVD-RAM. Linux 2.6.32 -x64 udev-146-r1 Perhaps we can do this better? --John INFO: task scsi_id:5533 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. scsi_id D 0000000000000000 0 5533 5532 0x00000000 ffff8801078abc38 0000000000000086 0000000000000000 ffff8801078abd58 000000000000c928 ffff8801078abfd8 ffff88022d81f350 ffff88022f88e650 ffff88022d81f5c8 0000000181194008 000000010002a572 ffff88002828c928 Call Trace: [<ffffffff813e93c2>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xf2/0x180 [<ffffffff81213250>] ? exact_match+0x0/0x10 [<ffffffff813e91fe>] mutex_lock+0x1e/0x40 [<ffffffff81104678>] __blkdev_get+0x38/0x390 [<ffffffff811049db>] blkdev_get+0xb/0x10 [<ffffffff81104a4c>] blkdev_open+0x6c/0xc0 [<ffffffff810d5a09>] __dentry_open+0x139/0x320 [<ffffffff811049e0>] ? blkdev_open+0x0/0xc0 [<ffffffff810d5cf7>] nameidata_to_filp+0x57/0x70 [<ffffffff810e505a>] do_filp_open+0x72a/0xb00 [<ffffffff810ef16a>] ? alloc_fd+0x4a/0x140 [<ffffffff810d57bf>] do_sys_open+0x7f/0x140 [<ffffffff810d58ab>] sys_open+0x1b/0x20 [<ffffffff8100b36b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html