https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15884 --- Comment #8 from Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@xxxxxxxxx> 2010-05-13 02:24:17 --- The -immed flag to wodim may improve the situation, if you can make k3b add it to the wodim command line somehow: -immed Tell wodim to set the SCSI IMMED flag in certain commands (load/eject/blank/close_track/close_session). This can be use- ful on broken systems with ATAPI harddisk and CD/DVD writer on the same bus or with SCSI systems that don’t use discon- nect/reconnect. These systems will freeze while blanking or fixating a CD/DVD or while a DVD writer is filling up a session to the minimum amount (approx. 800 MB). Setting the -immed flag will request the command to return immediately while the opera- tion proceeds in background, making the bus usable for the other devices and avoiding the system freeze. This is an experimental feature which may work or not, depending on the model of the CD/DVD writer. A correct solution would be to set up a correct cabling but there seem to be notebooks around that have been set up the wrong way by the manufacturer. As it is impossible to fix this problem in notebooks, the -immed option has been added. A second experimental feature of the -immed flag is to tell wodim to try to wait short times while writing to the media. This is expected to free the IDE bus if the CD/DVD writer and the data source are connected to the same IDE cable. In this case, the CD/DVD writer would otherwise usually block the IDE bus for nearly all the time making it impossible to fetch data from the source drive. See also minbuf= and -v option. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching the assignee of the bug.-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
